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.
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.
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