Obama’s aides are saying that the president-elect will issue an order to close the controversial Guantanamo Bay military prison within his first week in office.  This is obviously not a formal announcement but two anonymous sources within the transition team leaked the information to the press on Monday.

The facility currently holds approximately 250 al Qaeda and Taliban suspects.  Obama’s order will not see those prisoners released or transferred to another location.  It will simply direct his administration to come up with a plan to move the suspects and close the prison, which has become a symbol of the sometimes controversial tactics used in America’s war on terror.  This is sure to be one of Obama’s more debated moves that will come to dominate headlines in the next few weeks.