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Catholic News Service: 100-day campaign will remind Obama of pledge to close Guantanamo

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 6:11pm

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http://www.catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=5338

From the Catholic Review:

Closure of the military prison at the U.S. Army base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be getting renewed attention during a 100-day campaign designed to hold President-elect Barack Obama to his campaign pledge to close the compound.

On Jan. 11, the seventh anniversary of its opening, organizers of the 100 Days Campaign will begin a series of events including public witness, street theater, processions, lectures, prayer and fasting to call attention to Obama’s promise that he would close the controversial prison. A Department of Defense spokesman said 250 detainees remain behind bars there.