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House Chair: GITMO terrorists Obama wants released ‘committed to killing Americans’

By Paul Bedard

Published March 22, 2016 5:42pm ET

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House Chair: GITMO terrorists Obama wants released ‘committed to killing Americans’ — In this March 1, 2002 file photo, a detainee is escorted to interrogation by U.S. military guards at Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File) | ANDRES LEIGHTON

As President Obama wraps up his trip to Cuba, where he hopes to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison, a House chairman is warning that those the White House would release to other countries “are committed to killing Americans.”

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce added that many of those countries are “ill-equipped to stop them from returning to the battlefield.”

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