President Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay by January this year when he was running for president. However, a new trial of a Guantanamo detainee, Ghailani, is going to begin, and this serves as a "test run for future prosecutions" as NPR put it. Does this mean there might be more detainees from Guantanamo being on trial no matter under the federal system or not? If so, closing the Guantanamo Bay is currently not on our federal government's agenda. Perhaps, as President Obama answered in a press conference on September 14, "the politics of it are difficult".
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