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VIDEO: Obama closing Guantanamo
23 Jan 2009 03:43:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
Jan. 22 - President Obama vowed to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year.

The prison became a stain on the human rights record of the United States and a symbol of detainee abuse and detention without charge under the Bush Administration.

Deborah Lutterbeck reports from Washington.




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