Photo: #The sun rises over Camp Delta detention compound which has housed foreign prisoners since 2002, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, June 6, 2008 in Cuba.
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The sun rises over Camp Delta detention compound which has housed foreign prisoners since 2002, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, June 6, 2008 in Cuba. (BRENNAN LINSLEY/AFP/Getty Images)

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The start of Gitmo's closure

Broadcast: Midmorning, 01/23/2009, 9:06 a.m.

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President Obama has signed executive orders to shut the Guantanamo detention camp within a year. But the fate of the nearly 250 inmates held there may complicate the process.

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  • Nicole Moen: Minneapolis attorney who represents an Algerian who is detained at Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
  • Sarah Mendelson: director of the Human Rights and Security Initiative and senior fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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