Washington, November 19: US President Barack Obama admitted for the first time on Wednesday that the United States would miss the January 2010 deadline he set for closing the US war on terror prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“Guantanamo — we had a specific deadline that was missed,” Obama told NBC television, in one of a flurry of interviews he gave in Beijing as his Asia tour winds down.
Obama had vowed during his first week in office last January that he would close the prison camp within one year, but now concedes that it will take more time.
–PTI