Holder: 30 Gitmo inmates approved for release

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BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says about 30 detainees have been cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay.

Holder met with reporters in Germany ahead of a speech appealing for Europe's help to close the U.S. military detention facility.

The attorney general says the U.S. has not decided which detainees they want to send to specific countries, adding that those decisions are weeks away.

There are 241 prisoners at Guantanamo, and Holder has been visiting European leaders this week asking for help relocating detainees and shuttering the detention site over the next nine months.

Previewing his later speech, Holder said closing the detention facility is a shared responsibility for the U.S. and Europe.

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[mike_c]

1. "a shared responsiblity?"

Yeah, right. Gitmo is our shame, not Europe's. Some European governments participated in some aspects of U.S. crimes against humanity, e.g. secret torture prisons-- as an aside, who would have thought ten or more years ago that they'd ever write the phrase "secret U.S. torture prisons?"-- but Guantanamo Bay is an entirely U.S. aberration of justice.