Life After Gitmo: Detainees Look Forward To Future After January 20 Release

The 250 remaining prisoners at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba are marking their calendars in anticipation of January 20, 2009, the day their prison will be shut down for good and they will be released into freedom after years of torture and captivity under the Bush administration. In exit interviews with the detainees, many were anxious to discuss their future plans. Many planned to travel upon their release, while some hoped to return to their respective homes in the Middle East. Others, meanwhile, hoped to relocate to the United States and set up roots in various cities across the country, blending in with the other citizens and, hopefully, finding a good paying job. Some plan to go to college or vocational school; others hope to study aviation or to go into microbiology. And some plan to be entrepreneurs like Amal Allibbi, a 21-year-old Pakistani, who plans to set up his own flower boutique in San Francisco, near the Golden Gate Bridge...