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A US military guard walks past an inmate at the maximum security prison of Camp 5 at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba in 2006. US President Barack Obama remains committed to closing the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, but may not meet a January 2010 deadline. (AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)

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