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November 19, 2009
Closing the facility, he added, is "also just technically hard."
BEIJING -- President Obama directly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January deadline he set, but he said he hoped to still achieve that goal sometime next year.Obama refused, however, to set a new deadline.
In an interview in the Chinese capital with Major Garrett of Fox News, Obama said he was "not disappointed" that the Guantanamo deadline had slipped, saying he "knew this was going to be hard."
"People, I think understandably, are fearful after a lot of years where they were told that Guantanamo was critical to keep terrorists out," Obama said. Closing the facility, he added, is "also just technically hard."
Is there some added frisson that the story is bylined BEIJING? Or that this came out in an interview with that non-news organization, Fox News? I don't know. I find it all amusing - down to the gratuitous "just."
Posted by CrankyProfessor at November 19, 2009 1:32 AM