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Mid of US President George W. Bush departing from the White House2. Mid of Bush walking to Marine OneFILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Recent3. Wide of Camp Delta gate FILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 27 March 20074....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eWashington DC, 21 June 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid of US President George W. Bush departing from the White House\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of Bush walking to Marine One\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Recent\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Camp Delta gate \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 27 March 2007\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of guard tower, focus to fence wire\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of detainee exercising\u003cbr/\u003e6. Pan left to barbed wire\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of detainee walking and opening door (face not showed)\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC, 21 June 2007\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of American Civil Liberties Union Legislative Counsel Christopher Anders walking\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Anders, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, it's time to shut it down. It's long past time to shut it down. We have 375 people being held at Guantanamo. The government has no intention of charging most of them, hundreds of them, the United States has already said are never going to be charged. So these people have been held for sometimes over five years without being charged and they're wasting away down there. It's time to make decisions about where they go.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of Guantanamo detainees' lawyer Tom Wilmer walking\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Wilmer, Lawyer for Guantanamo Detainees:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, my reaction is, I hope it's true and it's great if they do it. It's great if they do it. It's great not only for the detainees there who will get some measure of due process, but it's great for the United States because it shows we are not afraid of the rule of law.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 27 March 2007\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of door at cell closing\u003cbr/\u003eThe Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move terror suspects from there to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press has learned.\u003cbr/\u003eSenior administration officials said on  Thursday a consensus is building for a proposal to shut the centre and transfer detainees to one or more Defence Department facilities, including the maximum security military prison at Fort Leavenworth in the midwestern state of Kansas, where they could face trial.\u003cbr/\u003ePresident George W. Bush's national security and legal advisers had been scheduled to discuss the move at a meeting on Friday, the officials said. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter news of it broke, however, the White House said the meeting would not take place that day and no decision on Guantanamo Bay's status was imminent.\u003cbr/\u003eThree senior officials said the advisers were  considering the proposal that included using Fort Leavenworth or other military prisons, rather than Guantanamo.\u003cbr/\u003eThe officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing internal deliberations.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials familiar with the agenda of Friday's meeting said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defence Secretary Robert Gates, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Peter Pace and Vice President Dick Cheney were likely to attend.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was not immediately clear whether the meeting would result in a final recommendation on Guantanamo to Bush.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's time to shut it down\", said American Civil Liberties Union Legislative Counsel Christopher Anders. \u003cbr/\u003e\"These people have been held for  sometimes over five years without being charged and they're wasting away down there.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTom Wilmer, a lawyer for Guantanamo detainees, welcomed the news of a possible closure of the prison.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I hope it's true and it's great if they do it,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's great not only for the detainees there who will get some measure of due process, but it's great for the United States because it shows we are not afraid of the rule of law.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePrevious plans to close the Guantanamo prison have run into fierce resistance from Cheney, Gonzales and former Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. \u003cbr/\u003eBut officials said the new suggestion is gaining momentum with at least tacit support from the State and Homeland Security departments, the Pentagon, and the US Intelligence Directorate.\u003cbr/\u003eCheney's office and the Justice Department have been firmly opposed to the step, arguing that moving \"unlawful\" enemy combatant suspects to the United States would give them undeserved legal rights.\u003cbr/\u003eThey could still block the proposal, but pressure to close Guantanamo has been building since a Supreme Court decision last year that found a previous system for prosecuting enemy combatants illegal and recent rulings by military judges that threw out charges against two terror suspects under a new tribunal scheme.\u003cbr/\u003eThose decisions have dealt a blow to the administration's efforts to begin prosecuting dozens of Guantanamo detainees regarded as the nation's most dangerous terrorist suspects.\u003cbr/\u003eCongressional Democrats, now in the majority, and some Republicans also have taken up the cause. \u003cbr/\u003eSeveral recently introduced pieces of proposed legislation would require Guantanamo's closure and one that would designate Fort Leavenworth as the new detention facility.\u003cbr/\u003eAnother bill would grant new rights to those held at Guantanamo Bay, including access to lawyers regardless of whether the prisoners were put on trial. \u003cbr/\u003eAnother would allow detainees to protest their detentions in federal court, a right they now are denied.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Guantanamo Bay prison, where some 380 alleged terrorists are now detained, has been a flash point for criticism of the Bush\u003cbr/\u003eadministration at home and abroad. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was set up in 2002 to house terror suspects captured in military operations, mostly in Afghanistan.\u003cbr/\u003eHuman rights advocates and foreign leaders have urged repeatedly that the United States close the jail, and it is regarded by 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