Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Obama says Guantanamo prison to close "next year" (Reuters)

FILE - An undated file photo provided by the U.S. District Attorneys office shows Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said Ghailani has no right to keep a pair of Marine and Air Force lawyers who represented him at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when their superior officers have decided they are needed elsewhere .Ghailani, a Tanzanian, became the first Guantanamo detainee to be taken to a U.S. civilian court for trial when he was brought to Manhattan in June to face charges in the Aug. 7, 1998, attacks at embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. (AP Photo/File)Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, can be closed next year, but he acknowledged that he will not meet his original January deadline.
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