WikiLeaks: US plays with foreign governments over Guantanamo prisoners | Mail Online

WikiLeaks: US plays with foreign governments over Guantanamo prisoners | Mail Online

American diplomats played a high stakes game of ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ with foreign governments to try and empty terror suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, according to the leaks.

Barack Obama had hoped to shut down the controversial Cuban outpost within a year of becoming president.

But State officials came up against a brick wall both in the U.S. and abroad with fierce opposition over plans to resettle the detainees.

Blight: Terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay (file photo)

Now, with Mr Obama’s deadline long gone, the cables released by Wikileaks show just how desperate the U.S. became to offload foreign Gitmo inmates.

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