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World Service,14 Jan 2010,25 mins

Closing Guantanamo: What went wrong?

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The BBC's Jon Manel explores how President Barack Obama went about trying to close the world's most controversial prison camp. This special BBC programme discovers why the US administration failed to meet the closure deadline set on the President's second day in office.

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