obama administration shuts down one prison camp at guantanamo bay
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Obama administration shuts down one prison camp at Guantanamo Bay

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The Obama administration has gotten one step closer to shuttering the Guantanamo Bay detention center, closing down a 100-cell maximum-security prison and moving to reduce the U.S. presence there. 

The site known as Camp 5 will be closed, with parts of it turned into a medical clinic to "improve operations", Fox News quoted a military official as saying

“Camp V at Joint Task Force Guantanamo has been closed as a detention facility and repurposed into another function and the detainees consolidated," spokesman Capt. John Filostrat said in a statement. 

The development is part of President Obama’s promise to close the detention center -- an effort that continues to face fierce resistance in Congress. 

Camp 5 is where problematic prisoners were sent, including those who went on hunger strikes as well as war criminals. 

They reportedly will be "consolidated" into another section known as Camp 6. 

Filostrat said troops started to move detainees from Camp 5 on Aug. 19 – a week after the Pentagon said it had sent 15 detainees to the United Arab Emirates as part of Obama’s plan to shrink the prison population. 

The total detainee population is now at 61, and the administration plans to continue transferring out additional prisoners -- though Congress has blocked transfers to the US complicating the goal of shuttering the camp by the end of Obama's presidency.

Source: MENA

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