WASHINGTON - President George W Bush has decided not to close the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and has never considered options to transfer its detainees, according to a media report. Despite his stated desire to close the military prison camp where the US houses suspected terrorists and "illegal enemy combatants," Bush has not given any consideration to options drawn up by State Dept and US Defence Dept officials to do so, unnamed senior administration officials told The New York Times Tuesday. A ruling by the US SC in June found that the 250 detainees at Gitmo have the right to make habeas corpus appeals, undercutting a core rationale for keeping the prison off US soil. The ruling raised hopes it would spur Bush to close the facility, where human rights advocates say the US has engaged in torture and other prisoner abuses banned by the Geneva Conventions. Bush said several times since 2006 that it was his goal to close Guantanamo. Instead, sources say he has sided with his advisers who argued closing the prison would be too risky for the foreseeable future, The Times said."That is a reminder that Gitmo holds some of the world's most dangerous people, including KSM," she said, using the shorthand for the prison's name and for Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks.