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[/FONT]President Barack Obama – who began his presidency by signing an executive order requiring the closing of the terrorist detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba – pledged Tuesday to renew his efforts to close the facility, where 100 of the 166 detainees are now involved in a weeks-long hunger strike.“I don't want these individuals to die,” Obama said. “Obviously the Pentagon is trying to manage the situation as best as they can. But I think all of us should reflect on why exactly are we doing this. Why are we doing this?”
[FONT=georgia, serif]If the detention center were ever closed, the prisoners now held there could be released to their countries of origin – if the governments of those countries were willing to repatriate them – or to a third country if that nation were willing to accept them. A third option, if Congress were to agree, would be to send them to maximum-security prison in the Unites States.[/FONT]
But Congress largely shuts off those options in a defense spending bill that Obama signed on Jan. 2.
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[FONT=georgia, serif]Read more@: [/FONT]Obama pledges to 're-engage' on Gitmo amid hunger strike - NBC Politics
[FONT=georgia, serif]We need to close this facility. Its unjust and [/FONT][FONT=georgia, serif]unacceptable[/FONT][FONT=georgia, serif] on international terms. We need to close the facility down and either try them here in the US or return them to their home country. This defiantly should of been done long ago. [/FONT]