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Most detainees held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are low-level guerrilla fighters, The Washington Post reported, citing a previously undisclosed government report. Only about 10 percent of the 240 detainees held at Guantanamo when President Barack Obama took office in January 2009 were leaders, operatives and facilitators involved in plots against the United States, the paper reported. The rest were largely rank-and-file fighters, while about five percent could not be categorized at all, the paper noted. According to The Post, the final report by the Guantanamo Review Task Force obtained by the paper recommended that 126 of the detainees be transferred either to their homes or to a third country. But it also said 36 detainees should be prosecuted in either federal court or a military commission, while 48 should be held indefinitely under the laws of war, the paper reported. According to The Post, the report was completed in January but sent to select committees of the US Congress this past week.
