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Guantanamo
Nov 19 2009, Jack

President Obama has admitted for the first time that the deadline he set two days into his Administration for closing the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp in Cuba will be missed.

The admission confirmed widespread speculation about a process plagued by...

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In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee stands inside a holding cell, photographed through a glass wall, at Camp 5 detention facility, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nov. 19, 2008. A former Bush administration.