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Day 18: Obama meets with 9/11, Cole victims’ families

Sunday, February 8, 2009

President explains desire to close Gitmo, promises justice for loved ones.
President Barack Obama met Friday with relatives of victims of the bombing of the USS Cole and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling them he wants the same thing they do — justice for their loved ones.
In the hour-long session with roughly 40 family members [...]

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Day 6: Finds there are no files for Guantanamo detainees

Monday, January 26, 2009

When the Obama administration delved into the Guantanamo legal cases to prepare for the shutdown, they find that there doesn’t seem to be any real case files about them anywhere.
President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were [...]

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Day 2: Orders Guantanamo closed, bans torture

Thursday, January 22, 2009

It should come as a surprise to nobody that one of the first orders from the new preident is to order the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and that so called “harsh interrogation techniques” (ie: torture) are banned. All overseas CIA prisons where suspected terrorists are held are also to be shut down.
Mr [...]

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Day 1: Off to a running start

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Obama starts his first day in office like follows:

Before he even leaves home he halts the military tribunal processes at Guantánamo Bay.
As soon as he gets in he phones several arab leaders, namely the leaders of Egypt (Hosni Mubarak), Israel (Ehud Olmert), Jordan (King Hussein) and the palestinian Fatah party (Mahmoud Abbas).
He immediately froze [...]

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