Closing Guantanamo: Easier Said than Done

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To make good on his promise to close Guantanamo Bay, President Obama needs to re-locate more than 200 prisoners. One likely location in northwestern Illinois has set off a political firestorm, and there's ongoing dispute over how to clear up all those cases. Also, the President's trip to China. On Reporter's Notebook, Britain's new counter-insurgency manual tells soldiers to talk to Taliban leaders "with blood on their hands" and pay off potential recruits with "bags of money."

Banner image: Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois (L) and Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) speak to the media at a press conference about the Thomson Correctional Center on November 15, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Photo: David Banks/Getty Images

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