WASHINGTON — The Obama administration appeared Wednesday to acknowledge discussions about transferring some Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as part of U.S. efforts to jump-start peace talks with the Taliban after 10 years of inconclusive fighting.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said no decision about releasing any Taliban detainees has been made. But in answering a question about whether Washington was ready to transfer Guantanamo detainees, possibly to Qatar, in exchange for talks with the Afghan insurgents, Clinton did not dispute that such a trust-building measure was under consideration.
On Wednesday, protesters in orange jumpsuits and black hoods led a group of hundreds of rights activists on a march from the White House to the Supreme Court to mark Wednesday’s 10th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo.
