WASHINGTON - The United States is helping build a prison in Afghanistan to take some prisoners now at Guantanamo Bay, but the White House said Friday it is not meant as an alternative to the detainee facility in Cuba.
The Bush administration wants to close Guantanamo Bay and move its terror suspects to prisons elsewhere and senior officials have told The Associated Press a consensus is building among the president's top advisers on how to do it.
However, a scheduled high-level Friday meeting on the matter was canceled after AP reported on it and the White House said no decision is imminent - while repeating President Bush's stated desire to shutter Guantanamo Bay.
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