Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011 (AP)

A cell is seen during a media tour of the Thomson Correctional Center Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 in Thomson, Ill. President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to acquire the underused state prison in Thomson earlier this month to be the new home for a limited number of terror suspects now held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - President Barack Obama's commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next month may be delayed until 2011 because it will take months for the government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists.


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