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Obama to sign order shutting Gitmo in a year (AP)

 

Published 1/22/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News

AP - President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order Thursday to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year and halt military trials of terror suspects held there, a senior administration official said. The executive order was one of three expected imminently on how to interrogate and prosecute al-Qaida, Taliban or other foreign fighters believed to threaten the United States. (link)

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