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Obama announced this plan a few hours after being elected president in January 2009. He wants to close the prison within a year, and argues that the prison was used as a tool to recruit terrorists and bullies other U.S. national security.
But the plan was strongly opposed by the Congress to move the detainees to the U.S. mainland and the idea to hold the trial key Al-Qaeda suspects, Obama failed to fulfill these promises.
The president's commitment to close Guantanamo Bay still remained firm since his campaign in the year 2008 until now, "said White House spokesman, Jay Carney.Kami know there are many hurdles that impede the realization of this quickly as desired, but the president ... the president's commitment is not changed at all. "
Carney said that Obama, a high level national security officials and senior members of the military still believes that closing Guantanamo is a U.S. agenda.
We want to continue to refer to these commitments and trying to make it happen, "he said.
Opposition that still exists to close the prison camps in southeast Cuba, and political pressure during election times, apparently not an obstacle to closing Guantanamo in the near future.
Some of the mastermind behind the attacks of 11 September 2001 was a few people among the 171 prisoners still detained in prison awaiting trial and the military over there.
U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba received their first prisoners of the global fight against terrorism on January 11, 2002
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