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The US may try to head off legal challenges to the detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay by releasing some prisoners, the Pentagon has said.
It comes after the US Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that the detainees should be able to challenge their detentions in US courts.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita said no decision had been made on how to respond to the ruling, but he said:
"Everybody has a desire not to hold people that need not be held".
BBC Pentagon correspondent Nick Childs says it is increasingly clear that the Bush administration was caught off-guard by Monday's Supreme Court ruling
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It comes after the US Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that the detainees should be able to challenge their detentions in US courts.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita said no decision had been made on how to respond to the ruling, but he said:
"Everybody has a desire not to hold people that need not be held".
BBC Pentagon correspondent Nick Childs says it is increasingly clear that the Bush administration was caught off-guard by Monday's Supreme Court ruling
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