Obama signs order to close Guantanamo Bay

US President Barack Obama has signed the executive order to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year.



Congressional officials say a second executive order was also signed to ban torture.



This would mean that the Army field manual will now be used as the guide for terror interrogations, ending the Bush administration\'s program of enhanced interrogation methods.



A third executive order calling for a systematic review of detention policies and procedures and a review of all individual cases was also signed.



The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay became a lightning rod for critics who charged that the Bush administration had used torture on terror detainees.



Former US President George W. Bush and other senior officials repeatedly denied that the government had used torture to extract intelligence from terror suspects.



Obama\'s move will set off a fierce legal struggle over where the prison\'s detainees will go next.