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Closing Guantánamo: Can Obama Close the Detention Camp within One Year?

Closing Guantánamo: Can Obama Close the Detention Camp within One Year?

Closing Guantánamo: Can Obama close the detention camp within one year?
KennethJost
President Barack Obama signs an executive order on Jan. 22 — his second full day in office — to close the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay within a year. Human-rights advocates and lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle agree the controversial facility should be closed. But finding countries willing to take the 241 detainees remains a problem, and Republicans are warning they will oppose efforts to house prisoners in the United States.

Mohammed Jawad has spent more than a quarter of his young life in the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for an offense he says he didn't commit.

The government says the Afghani ...

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