Monday, May 4, 2009

Germany examining US Request to Take Guantanamo Detainees

Germany is studying a U.S. request to take in some prisoners held at its military prison in Guantanamo Bay.

In Germany, the question has revealed divisions between Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a Social Democrat (SPD), and Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, a leader from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU).

Steinmeier, the SPD candidate to challenge Merkel in September's federal election, has said Germany should take in some prisoners as a token of solidarity after Germany had long urged the United States to close the prison.

Schaeuble has expressed reservations about Germany accepting detainees.

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