Obama orders Guantanamo closure

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7845585.stm

US President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp within one year.
He has also ordered a review of the military trials and a ban of harsh interrogation techniques that many consider to amount to torture.

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Created by damianrafferty on 22 January 2009

damianrafferty's thoughts:

I think Obama might have signed the pledge himself! Is that 3 out of 3 in just two days?. Hurray for the president of the USA.

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