Obama's order will direct his administration to figure out what to do with the estimated 250 al-Qaida and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held at Guantanamo.
It's still unlikely the prison would be closed any time soon. Obama last weekend said it would be "a challenge" to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.
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- ajwashington
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It will be not a moment too soon. The investigations have turned up that many of 4,000 plus U.S. casualty's were caused after the Islamic world found out about the torture in Abugarib in Iraq. TORTURE is against the military code of justice, and water boarding is against the Geneva Convention as many Japenese found out after world war 2 as they were found guilty and executed for war crimes. General Miller a former head of prisons in Utah and in charge of Guantanamo prison and later transfered to Iraq were dog collars and leashes turned up at both places bares a responsibility to many of these war crimes purpetated in our name. Justice must be done to gain back our moral high ground.
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- kennymotown
- 11 months ago
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I've always been a little confused over the calls to close Gitmo. Is it purely a symbolic gesture, or is there a real advantage to the closure?
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it's about time. and we have the nerve to say that cuba has human rights issues while guantanamo is open? oy!
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- jefflovesian
- 11 months ago
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Finally! No more G-Bay!
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useless mate. Guatanamo is simply the prison with the "hausehold name" status. We hear nothing about the secret ship-prisons off the coast of africa in the indian ocean, "the pit" secret prisons in afghanistan, and the secret torture camps on eastern europe and diego garcia.
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- DoIt4TehLULZ
- 11 months ago
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