Closing the notorious prison facility on Cuba will be complex and politically thankless. Is Joe Biden prepared to take it on?
When news of Joe Biden’s election victory crossed the Florida Straits and reached Guantánamo Bay, it gave at least some of the 40 remaining inmates a tentative hope that their long purgatory might finally be nearing an end.
“I think it’s OK for me to be happy about the result. But at the same time, it’s not like, day one, Biden is going to say ‘let’s release Khalid’,” Khalid Qassim, a Yemeni arrested in Afghanistan in 2001, said in a statement given by phone to his lawyer.
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