Obama reviewing how to close Guantanamo: aide

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Obama reviewing how to close Guantanamo: aide


WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama's presidential transition team said Tuesday it was working though the complicated issues involved in his campaign pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay "war on terror" camp in Cuba.

The Democratic president-elect is already under fierce pressure from human rights groups to close the controversial high-security facility but faces a legal minefield in deciding where to house inmates and how to try them.

"Senator Obama has said that he intends to close the facility at Guantanamo, that's a complicated matter," said his transition co-chair John Podesta.

"It's under review ... when we have something to say about that, we'll say it," Podesta said at the first news conference of the transition in Washington.

"I think that moving the process forward and undertaking the review of how one would exactly accomplish that is a project that the transition will undertake, and then will be implemented by the new administration."

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[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Did I already mention I love this man? nt

[Captain Hilts]

2. If there's ONE thing that I'd trust Colin Powell to do, THIS is it. He made it possible, now...

he can clean it up.