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President Obama is planning to transfer at least 22 additional Guantanamo Bay detainees out of the military detention center before he leaves office later this month, DailyMail.com has learned. The group being released will be drawn from those held at Guantanamo - who include an accused senior al Qaeda bomb-maker, the terror group's top financial manager, and two intended 9/11 hijackers, who have all been held in the Cuba-based U.S. detention facility for more than a decade. According to a military source briefed on the process, 22 detainees are being prepared for transfer out of the camp, also known as...

SYDNEY — Australia was considering a fresh request from the United States to resettle a group of inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, officials said Saturday. "Australia has received another request from the United States and the matter is being considered," a foreign affairs spokeswoman told AFP. Canberra has already rebuffed at least three such requests -- two from the administration of former US president George W Bush -- and a third received last May from President Barack Obama. The spokeswoman said the latest request came in "late 2009" but she could not comment on specifics or confirm how...

THE 17 Guantanamo Bay inmates Washington wants to send Australia as it closes down its controversial camp for suspected terrorists are high on China's most-wanted list. They are Uyghurs, members of the nine-million-strong group of Turkic Muslims - some of them sandy-haired and blue-eyed - who live in the arid northwest Chinese region of Xinjiang, which is about the size of Queensland. Five other Uyghurs who were hauled to Guantanamo after 9/11 were sent to Albania, a majority Muslim country, in May 2006. But the remainder have proved harder to place. The Weekend Australian revealed last week that Beijing has...