From The Washington Times:
President-elect Barack Obama plans to close the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay as soon as he is sworn in as president Jan. 20. While specific details of the shutdown still have to be ironed out, aides to Mr. Obama say he plans to transfer some of the 255 alien terror suspects at Gitmo to U.S. jails and prisons to await trial on criminal charges.
During the campaign, Mr. Obama said the United States would be well served by returning to the anti-terror tactics of the Clinton years - trying suspects in court. Mr. Obama suggested that Gitmo was damaging international respect for the United States. By contrast, "in previous terror attacks, for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center [in 1993], we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated."
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