The United States is “stuck” with its war-on-terror detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba because it cannot figure out what to do with prisoners who cannot be charged or set loose, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

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Gates told lawmakers that he still believes that the prison should be closed, but has not found a way to do it.

“Senator, I think the brutally frank answer is we’re stuck. And we’re stuck in several ways,” he told California Senator Dianne Feinstein.

He said the United States was prepared to send 60 or 70 prisoners home but either cannot persuade their countries to take them, or can’t trust them not to free them.

“The second problem is … what do you do with that irreducible 70 or 80 who you cannot let loose but will not be charged and will not be sent home,” he said.

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I would have thought the obvious answer was to get them US passports.