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news.yahoo.com - 1/22/2009
Obama orders Guantanamo's closure within a year - Yahoo! News
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the closure of the Guantanamo military prison within a year and a halt to harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, moving quickly to restore the U.S. image abroad. The executive order to shut the prison, a symbol of detainee abuse ...

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Ace of Spades HQ:  True to His Word, Obama Orders Issues Gitmo Closing Order Shortly After Taking the Oath of Office

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whitehouse.gov - 1/23/2009
Closure Of Guantanamo Detention Facilities
— whitehouse.gov — (a) Over the past 7 years, approximately 800 individuals whom the Department of Defense has ever determined to be, or treated as, enemy combatants have been detained at Guant namo. The Federal Government has moved more than 500 such detainees from ... (more) Closure Of Guantanamo Detention Facilities
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washingtonpost.com - 1/22/2009
Obama Orders Guantanamo's Closure Within a Year
— washingtonpost.com — Special Envoys Named for Mideast, Afghanistan and Pakistan By William Branigin and Michael D. Shear Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, January 22, 2009; 6:05 PM President Obama today signed a series of executive orders to close the U.S. detention ... (more) Obama Orders Guantanamo's Closure Within a Year

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True to His Word, Obama Orders Issues Gitmo Closing Order Shortly After Taking the Oath of Office
Ace of Spades HQ — True to His Word, Obama Orders Issues Gitmo Closing Order Shortly After Taking the Oath of Office I think Gabriel was being purposefully fuzzy in his earlier thread on this. Obama says it's gonna happen "as soon as possible, but no later than one year from now" . Other upcoming Obama orders will include that the recession get itself righted sometime in March, but no later than Christmas of 2010, that we fully and completely nationalize the nation's healthcare system by sometime this February, or no later than 2013, and that NASA shall place an astronaut on the planet Mars this ...

Hullabaloo — ... Obama is following through on his promises. He is closing the Guantanamo prison and restricting the interrogation tactics used by the CIA. Before we get to the details, on the top line this is great news. ...

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