Congressional Democrats largely agreed that the detainees represent a potential risk and have blocked any new funds to transfer Guantanamo detainees to the United States.

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Redemption battles between hedge funds and their investors have been a common feature of the credit crisis as hedge funds blocked cash outflows in the name of preserving value of the underlying assets.

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Yet Germany, the funds' main paymaster, has blocked previous efforts to allow this and there is no indication of any concessions soon.

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But in the summer of 2007, the spigot delivering funds to banks from other banks and financial institutions became blocked and dysfunctional - and it has never started gushing in the way that it did.

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