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Individual US states are refusing to take detainees.

Few countries have agreed to take detainees, and few American states want them, even in high-security prisons.

Mr. Fried is now the Guantánamo special envoy, appointed by President Obama and charged with persuading other countries to take detainees held at the prison in Cuba.

In spite of Begg's efforts, Stroum said, Luxembourg was not prepared to take detainees, a fairly common position among European countries.

"If European countries are willing to take detainees from Guantánamo, that'd be a constructive step," said Dana M. Perino, the White House press secretary.

Over the past decade, the government has sent detainees to at least 52 countries, The Times and NPR have determined, so it surely can find countries to take detainees who cannot be returned home.

Melita Thomeczeck, the Philippine's deputy consulate general in New York, suspected that the warden added the music in order to take detainee's minds off of other matters.

WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country.

Sometimes, they took detainees to shower [REDACTED].

However, Diego Garcia was used as a stopover for CIA flights taking detainees to secret prisons around the world.

In the first two years, he said, seventeen countries took detainees: from Ireland and Spain to Latvia, Cape Verde, and Palau.