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Wide push in of The White HouseAP TelevisionFILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - date unknown2. Push in close up of plaque in camp3. Wide of US flag in campAP TelevisionWashington, DC - 21 January...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 21 January 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide push in of The White House\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - date unknown\u003cbr/\u003e2. Push in close up of plaque in camp\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of US flag in camp\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 21 January 2009\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jennifer Daskal, Human Rights Watch:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, it's the beginning of the end to a failed system at attempted justice. In his first day in office, Barack Obama took an important step to begin to restore the rule of law and to demonstrate to the world that America stands for fair justice.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Jonathan Turley, George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that Obama needed to take this act, he needed to show the world that he's not a warmed over George Bush, that he is going to return this country to the standard of the rule of law. It was a very important and defining moment.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Date unknown\u003cbr/\u003e6. Pan right of tribunal hearing room\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 21 January 2009\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jennifer Daskal, Human Rights Watch:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is 18 cases that are currently pending before the military commissions, or were currently pending when Barack Obama took office. So, prosecutors will go to the judges in each of those cases and request delays in those cases. This order doesn't address what to do with the other 230 detainees at Guantanamo who are not facing military commission charges and we expect Barack Obama to issue an order in the coming days that will announce his plan for the closing of Guantanamo, set a date certain for Guantanamo's closing and announce the process for reviewing the detainee's files.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 20 January 2009\u003cbr/\u003e8. Former President George W. Bush walking up steps of helicopter with his wife Laura after saying goodbye to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama\u003cbr/\u003e9. Pan left as helicopter flies away\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 21 January 2009\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Jonathan Turley, George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There was a great rush at end of the Bush administration to convict someone, anyone, under the tribunals. It was almost an act of vanity, that President Bush wanted to show that someone had been convicted after all of these years and controversy.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Date unknown\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of a detainee with guards inside camp\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 21 January 2009\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Jonathan Turley, George Washington University:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Closing Guantanamo Bay is not that high up on the list of civil libertarians, because you wouldn't have solved the crimes under Nixon by just bulldozing the Watergate. The Watergate was just a building that bad things happened in. Guantanamo Bay is a place, it's what happened there that we have to address, and what happened there happened to be war crimes. And we now have Bush officials admitting that they tortured people.  We have the interrogators who have said they tortured people. So, you have a defined war crime, the world is going to watch and whether Barack Obama walks away from a defined and confirmed war crime. It would be a terrible, ignoble and inauspicious way to start his administration - but more importantly, Obama cannot hope to go around the world and speak about the rule of law if one of the first acts he took was to stop the investigation of war crimes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 21 January 2009\u003cbr/\u003e13. Pull out from Presidential seal, to President Obama speaking\u003cbr/\u003ePool\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Date unknown\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of detainee behind fences\u003cbr/\u003eMilitary trials for prisoners interned at Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday, complying with a request issued on Tuesday night by newly inaugurated US president Barack Obama.\u003cbr/\u003eObama wants a suspension in proceedings while he reviews his predecessor's strategy for prosecuting inmates being held at the facility.\u003cbr/\u003eThe judges quickly agreed to a 120-day suspension of the cases of a Canadian accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan and five men charged in the September 11 attacks. \u003cbr/\u003eSimilar orders are expected in other cases pending before the Guantanamo military commissions.\u003cbr/\u003eNews of the suspension was greeted with relief by human rights groups.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, it is the beginning of the end to a failed system at attempted justice. In his first day in office, Barack Obama took an important step to begin to restore the rule of law and to demonstrate to the world that America stands for fair justice,\" said Human Rights Watch's Jennifer Daskal.\u003cbr/\u003eLaw professor Jonathan Turley also called it an important and defining moment.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that Obama needed to take this act, he needed to show the world that he's not a warmed over George Bush, that he is going to return this country to the standard of the rule of law. \"\u003cbr/\u003eThe new Obama administration circulated a draft executive order on Wednesday that called for closing the controversial U.S. detention centre at Guantanamo Bay within a year and halting any trials in the meantime.\u003cbr/\u003eClosing the facility in Cuba \"would further the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice,\" read the draft prepared for the new president's signature.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile some of the detainees currently held at Guantanamo would be released, others would be transferred elsewhere and later put on trial under terms to be determined.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was not known when Obama intended to issue the order.\u003cbr/\u003eHe has been a long time critic of the Bush administration's decision to maintain the detention facility, which was opened after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout 245 detainees currently are held at Guantanamo, out of some 800 who were sent there during the Bush administration.\u003cbr/\u003eHuman Rights Watch's Senior Counter terrorism Counsel, Jennifer Daskal says the order does not address the fate of about 230 detainees who are not facing military commission charges.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We expect Barack Obama to issue an order in the coming days that will announce his plan for the closing of Guantanamo, set a date certain for Guantanamo's closing and announce the process for reviewing the detainee's files,\" Daskal added.\u003cbr/\u003eThe facility at Guantanamo Bay has long been criticised by critics of the former Bush administration at home, as well as by other governments overseas, as a black eye for the United States. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Turley notes that torture issues that have arisen at Guantanamo Bay are twinned with allegations of war crimes.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Closing Guantanamo Bay is not that high up on the list of civil libertarians ... because you wouldn't have solved the crimes under Nixon by just bulldozing the Watergate.  The Watergate was just a building that bad things happened in.  Guantanamo Bay is a place, it is what happened there that we have to address and what happened there happened to be war crimes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHe insists that Obama is facing a tough decision about how to handle both those issues.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It would be a terrible, ignoble and inauspicious way to start (Obama's) his administration - but more importantly Obama cannot hope to go around the world and speak about the rule of law if one of the first acts he took was to stop the investigation of war crimes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe Bush administration established the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay as part of what it called \"the war on terror\", contending that those held there were not entitled to the customary rights that prisoners in the United States enjoy, or to the protections of the Geneva Conventions that cover war prisoners.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Obama administration draft order notes that some of those held at the site have been there for more than six years, and most for at least 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