January 22, 2009: Obama signs executive order to close Guantanamo Bay

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Sec. 3. Closure of Detention Facilities at Guantánamo. The detention facilities at Guantánamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the date of this order. If any individuals covered by this order remain in detention at Guantánamo at the time of closure of those detention facilities, they shall be returned to their home country, released, transferred to a third country, or transferred to another United States detention facility in a manner consistent with law and the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.

Signed, January 22, 2009.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/closureofguantanamodetentionfacilities/

7 days...

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2. Obama reaffirms Guantanamo Bay prison closure plans

January 5, 2010

US President Barack Obama has said a Yemen-linked plot to bomb an airliner will not prevent the closure of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay.

The US has suspended the repatriation of Yemeni prisoners held there in the wake of the plot, claimed by a Yemen-based al-Qaeda offshoot.

Nearly half of those remaining at the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are from Yemen.

Mr Obama originally set a January 22 deadline to close the prison camp.

But he admitted last November that that deadline had slipped to later in 2010.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8442543.stm