US sees 2014 progress in freeing Guantanamo inmates

Yahoo – AFP, 5 June 2014

This photo, taken during an escorted visit and reviewed by the US military,

 shows an unidentified detainee walking in the excercise yard at "Camp 6"

 detention facility at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay on April 8, 2014

(AFP Photo/Mladen Antonov)

This photo, taken during an escorted visit and reviewed by the US military, shows an unidentified detainee walking in the excercise yard at "Camp 6" detention facility at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay on April 8, 2014 (AFP Photo/Mladen Antonov)

Washington (AFP) - Moves to free detainees from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay are gathering pace as the administration works to close the notorious jail, a top US official said Thursday.

"There are a significant number of transfers in the pipeline at various stages and I think you're going to be seeing substantial progress this year," the senior administration official said, amid a furor over the release of five Taliban prisoners for a captured US soldier in Afghanistan.