Obama plans to order Gitmo closed on 1st day

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay military prison in the first 100 days of his presidency, according to US media.
Analysing Obama's interview with ABC's "This Week" on Jan 11, Newsweek said in one story that the president-elect had promised to reverse some Bush administration policies on the war on terror, including Guantanamo, but "it may not be simple."
In a separate story, Newsweek presented the case of Cole (a US warship) bombing architect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Guantanamo detainee, as one of the "tricky dilemmas facing the new Obama administration."
The Los Angeles Times pointed out that Obama acknowledged that not everything he promised to do during the campaign would be able to happen quickly, including the shutdown of Guantanamo.
AFP adds: Barack Obama plans to order the Guantanamo Bay "war on terror" detention camp closed on his first full day in office, the New York Times reported Tuesday, citing people briefed by Obama transition officials.
However it could take several months to close down the site: US officials will have to transfer some of the remaining 248 prisoners to other countries, then decide how to try the remaining suspects, the transition officials told the Times.