Report: Obama orders 30 Gitmo prisoners transferred

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The Obama administration is transferring 30 of Guantanamo Bay’s 80 remaining prisoners to other countries in June and July, the Associated Press reported Sunday.

The mass movement intensifies a strategy the administration is relying on to empty the military prison in Cuba before Obama leaves office, thereby somewhat fulfilling Obama’s major campaign promise to close the controversial facility.

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