Gillard says U.S. President George W. Bush's administration was told on Friday that a second request made in early December to resettle an unspecified number of detainees had been rejected.
She says the detainees did not meet Australia's stringent national security and immigration criteria.
She says her government had similarly rejected a resettlement request from the Bush administration in early 2008.
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