Detainee questions hinder plan to shut Guantanamo

Less than six months before his self-imposed deadline to shut down Guantanamo, US President Barack Obama faces key fights over where to move detainees and how to prosecute them.
His administration has only had limited success in emptying the detention centre of those considered its most low-risk inmates, sending them home or to third countries willing to provide them with asylum.
Portugal this week joined Bermuda, France, Ireland, and even the Pacific archipelago of Palau in agreeing to accept detainees from the prison, located on a US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Obama is still wrestling with what to do with some 229 detainees who remain, among them the highest-profile arrests in his predecessor George W. Bush's "war on terror" including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Obama made shutting the camp -- a symbol for many of all that was wrong with Bush's "war on terror" -- by the end of his first year in office on January 2010 a major campaign pledge.
But his decision earlier this year to prosecute some detainees in reformed versions of the Bush-era military commissions and try others in federal courts has met with growing opposition.