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Obama to Issue Order Closing Gitmo During First Week in Office
FoxNews.com ^ | Monday, January 12, 2009

Posted on 01/12/2009 2:03:25 PM PST by Joiseydude

President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office -- and perhaps his first day -- to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers.

It's unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be "a challenge" to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.

But the order, which one adviser said could be issued as early as Jan. 20, would start the process of deciding what to do with the estimated 250 Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there. Most have not been charged with a crime.

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To: Joiseydude
 I say close GITMO and let these yahoos go.  Odds are they will wind up killing Europeans rather than Americans anyway.  Not the ideal ending for these SOBs but not necessarily a bad solution either, especially if they start with the liberal wankers from Belgium & Denmark.
121 posted on 01/13/2009 9:13:49 PM PST by HawaiianGecko (Online internet polls are foolish: Winston Churchill, 1939)
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To: Joiseydude

God Help us all.


122 posted on 01/14/2009 1:59:54 PM PST by kevinm13 (The Main Stream Media is dead! "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: Joiseydude
deciding what to do with the estimated 250 Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there

Congress needs pages.
123 posted on 01/14/2009 3:27:50 PM PST by Bars4Bill
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