Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo Bay prison open

Published January 31, 2018 3:23am ET



President Trump said Tuesday during his State of the Union speech that he signed an executive order to keep open the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The move reverses a directive issued by President Barack Obama in 2009 that sought to close the prison, which had been used after 9/11 to hold about 780 suspected terrorists captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

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