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President Barack Obama's vow to try again to close the Guantanamo Bay prison remains a tough sell in Congress....

President Barack Obama lifted a two-year freeze on new military trials at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and suggested on Monday Congress was hurting national security by blocking his attempts to move some trials into U.S. civilian courts.

The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to face a civilian trial is convicted in New York City of only a lesser consipiracy charge in the deadly 1998 plot to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa.

Stymied by Congress so far, the White House is considering issuing an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees considered too dangerous to prosecute or release, two administration officials said Friday.

In a dramatic break with the Bush administration, the Justice Department on Friday announced it is doing away with the designation of "enemy combatants," which allowed the United States to hold suspected terrorists at length without criminal charges.