Of course, that’s not really soon enough.
Barack Obama: Administration drafts order to close Guantanamo camp within year
Draft order would also declare a halt to all trials currently under way at the facility
By Mark Tran and Matthew Weaver for the Guardian U.K.

Moazzam Begg, the former British detainee at Guantanamo Bay, urged Obama to go further. “There is no clear statement about this being stopped and the whole process being recognised as illegal,” he said.
“For myself and other former detainees, until we see something tangible happening we are going to reserve judgment. That is because we have been here before – Bush has stated he wanted Guantanamo closed.”

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I’m excited about our new president, but I’m more excited about closing Guantanamo NOW.

I hope that, tomorrow morning, or at least sometime this week, I’ll get to look like a doubting thomas when Obama closes Guantanamo like he said he would.

Obama Will Issue Executive Order Within First Week to Shut Guantanamo

By Laura Meckler and Evan Perez, in the Wall St. Journal

Mr. Obama acknowledged over the weekend the process will take time.
“It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize,” he told ABC’s “This Week.” “I think it’s going to take some time.”
He added: “But I don’t want to be ambiguous about this. We are going to close Guantanamo and we are going to make sure that the procedures we set up are ones that abide by our Constitution.”

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