President Barack Obama may not be able to fulfill his promise of closing down infamous Guantanamo Bay by the end of his term because of political opposition and "inertia" on part of the administration, a media report said on Saturday. The initial date for shutting down the detention facility was 2010 but there has been considerable resistance to the proposal that the prisoners be shifted to a prison in Illinois, according to the New York Times.
"There is a lot of inertia against closing the prison, and the administration is not putting a lot of energy behind their position that I can see," said Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat. Levin said that "the odds are that it will still be open" by the next presidential inauguration. Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who also supports shutting it, said the effort is "on life support and it's unlikely to close any time soon." Senior officials told NYT that the Obama administration had done what it could and even identified the Illinois prison but Congress had failed to put these suggestions into motion. "The president can't just wave a magic wand to say that Gitmo
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