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Gitmo's Deadline for Closure Becomes Blurred:  Washington Post writer Anne E. Kornblut reports on President Obama's statement directly acknowledging that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not be closed in time for the January deadline set by the administration.  Although Obama came to office pledging to close the facility that had become a symbol for prisoner abuse, White House officials quickly encountered resistance from members of Congress opposed to moving prisoners to U.S. soil and from other countries they had hoped would accept detainees.  Obama insists that the facility will be closed next year, pending support from Congress.

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