DUBLIN, IRELAND (AP) -- Across Europe, President Barack Obama's decision to shut the Guantanamo Bay prison is raising an awkward question: Which countries that railed against the camp will offer new lives to released prisoners?
The U.S. Defense Department says about 50 of the prisoners awaiting freedom can't go home again on security or political grounds. That means finding another place to send them. But European Union members long critical of Guantanamo are shying away from any firm commitments to help.
It already appears likely that Europe will leave some of Guantanamo's inmates in limbo behind a policy of: No terrorists, please.
Ireland has joined Portugal, France, Germany and Switzerland in saying it probably will participate in an EU-organized plan that might take shape at a summit of foreign ministers starting Monday in Brussels.
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