Oct 6th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
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Reporting from Washington - Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said today that the Obama administration may not meet its Jan. 22 deadline for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and that the fate of more than 220 foreign terrorism suspects being held there is likely to remain up in the air well past January.
"It's going to be difficult" to make administration's self-imposed deadline, Holder told reporters during a rare and wide-ranging briefing at the Justice Department. He quickly added that the administration was still trying to meet the goal that President Obama set on his second day in office, and that the administration remained committed to shuttering the facility as soon as possible because it has become a rallying cry for terrorist organizations around the world.
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