Australia unlikely to resettle US detainees

Australia says it will likely reject a U.S. request to accept detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp for terror suspects.

Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is filling in for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd while he is on vacation, says the administration of President George W. Bush made the request early last month.

The request came after President-elect Barack Obama announced he planned to close the detention center.

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