The administration’s education in the reality of the War on Terror continues, with the decision by President Obama’s to detain indefinitely 50 inmates currently held at Guantanamo Bay military prisony, on the grounds that they are “too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release.”

The decision came on the recommendation of the president’s Gitmo task force, established soon after he took office. The body had its last meeting yesterday and concluded, among other things, that the prison cannot and should not be closed by Obama’s deadline.

The Times reports that of the prison’s roughly 200 detainees, about 40 will eventually be prosecuted and about 110 will be repatriated or transferred to other countries. But two important questions remain: Of those in the former category, which will be granted civilian trials and which trials by military commission? And of those in the latter category, about 30 are from Yemen, where the administration has halted Gitmo prisoner transfers in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing attempt. Where will they go?