Word: shuttering
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...told Fox News. "Maybe there's something that needs to be done in regard to the trial or the ability to release [detainees] ... but not here in the U.S." Congress has barred funding for bringing detainees to the U.S. until the Administration comes up with a satisfactory plan to shutter Gitmo...
...same time that GM plans to shutter plants from Jacksonville, Fla., to Indianapolis on the back of a $50 billion U.S. bailout, the car company is preparing to more than double Mexican output, from 344,099 this year...
...Good God, do not close this abortion clinic for this reason.' TROY NEWMAN, leader of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue, lamenting plans to shutter Dr. George Tiller's clinic because of Tiller's murder rather than ideological opposition to the practice...
President Barack Obama's pledge to shutter the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, moved a step forward on June 9, when the first detainee to face trial in a U.S. civilian court arrived in New York. Wearing blue prison garb, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani made a brief appearance in a crowded Manhattan courtroom, pleading not guilty to hundreds of charges related to the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and his alleged al-Qaeda ties. Ghailani, a Tanzanian believed to be 35 years old, is accused of scouting the American embassy in Dar es Salaam...
...challenge comes from an unexpected quarter. Democrats in Congress, fearing the political repercussions of moving suspected terrorists to U.S. soil, have pulled $80 million in funds for closing the prison--a political blow to President Obama, who on his second full day in office signed an Executive Order to shutter Gitmo. Congressional Democrats say the Administration, under fire for keeping Bush-era military tribunals for detainees, needs to develop a clearer plan for relocating prisoners...