Posted by
Billy on Monday, January 12, 2009 9:15:00 PM
President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office — and perhaps his first day — to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers. It's unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be "a challenge" to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.
But the order, which one adviser said could be issued as early as Jan. 20, would start the process of deciding what to do with the estimated 250 al-Qaida and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there. Most have not been charged with a crime.
(Can you image one of Qaida and Taliban suspects being given a trial in an American court room. It is too bad Obama and others on the left don't care as much about the lack of human rights given by the Cuba government We could have a repeat of the first trial of OJ with some ACLU soul defending one of these killers. It would be crazy if Obama does close this prison. God help us if he does. Read more on this issue right here.)
