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15 min ago | MyFoxChicago

White House Report On Gitmo Illinois

A White House analysis says a deal to house Guantanamo Bay detainees at the prison in Thomson, Ill., could bring nearly 3,000 jobs to the area.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, US News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Thomson, IL

8 hrs ago | Asia Times

New York readies for the 'Gitmo Five'

New York readies for the 'Gitmo Five' By Ben West and Fred Burton United States Attorney General Eric Holder announced on November 13 that the US Justice Department had decided to try five suspected terrorists, currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, located in Lower Manhattan.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, US News, Guantanamo Bay, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election

Sun Nov 22, 2009

People's Daily Online

Algeria acquits 2 former Guantanamo detainees

Two former Guantanamo prisoners on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist group were acquitted on Sunday in an Algerian criminal court, state APS news agency said.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News

TheWeek.com

Thomson, Illinois: a Gitmo Northa ?

Though it could shore up the state's economy, a plan to relocate Guantanamo Bay detainees to the heartland prompts furious debate U.S. Army guards escort a detainee at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, US News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Illinois, Illinois Government, Thomson, IL, Guantanamo Bay

American Prospect Online

The Left Splits Over Bagram

On his second day in office, President Barack Obama ordered Guantanamo Bay Prison closed by January of 2010.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Guantanamo Bay, US News

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Judges could free detainees in U.S.

When it comes to keeping Guantanamo inmates locked up indefinitely in the United States, the problem really isn't the jails, some lawyers say - it's the judges and the law.

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Related Topix: Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, US News, W.

WMAQ-TV

Democrats in Illinois Turning Against Gitmo Plan?

Seems even Illinois Democrats are beginning to turn against the proposal to ship terrorist suspects to an "Illinois Gitmo." Rep.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Melissa Bean, US News, US House of Representatives, Danny Davis, Democrat, US Senate, Richard Durbin, Illinois, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

Myrtle Beach Online

Excerpts from rulings in Guantanamo Bay cases

Case summaries and excerpts from the opinions by U.S. District Court judges for the 30 terrorism detainees ordered released from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison and the eight denied release since late 2008: ORDERING RELEASE Dozens of Gitmo detainees finally get day in court Dozens of Gitmo detainees finally get day in court In courtrooms barred to ...

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Guantanamo Bay, US News, Terrorism

Free Republic

White House: IL prison eyed for Guantanamo inmates

A White House official says the Obama administration is considering buying a northwestern Illinois prison to house a limited number of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, along with federal inmates.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Illinois, Illinois Government

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Fox News

House GOPer's Try to Block Detainees from Trial in U.S.

Key House Republicans are determined to keep suspected terrorists currently housed at Guantanamo Bay from coming to the United States for trial and incarceration.

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Related Topix: Prison, US News, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Guantanamo Bay, US Politics

CBS2Chicago.com

Feds Visit Potential Gitmo Site In Illinois

Share + Nov 16, 2009 10:05 pm US/Central Reporting Vince Gerasole THOMSON, Ill. 1 of 1 Locals of the northwestern Illinois town of Thomson are debating whether the state prison there should be converted into a federal pen for Guantanamo Bay detainees.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Judy Biggert, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Peter Roskam, Thomson, IL, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, State Prisons

The Age

Senate defeats Gitmo trial restriction

The US Senate has defeated a measure seen as hampering US President Barack Obama's administration plans to try suspected terrorists in civilian courts in New York.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Illinoisreview

Illinois Lawmakers Work to Prohibit Gitmo Detainees Transfer

" Congressman Aaron Schock , along with several other members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation, introduced legislation today to prohibit any federal funds from being used to transfer detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay to Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Judy Biggert, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, John Shimkus, Representative Aaron Schock, Representative Peter Roskam, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

The Miami Herald

U.S. plans for end of Guant namo prison camps

What can stay? What can go? And what can be destroyed? Undaunted, Guantnamo is preparing for the day when the detainees are gone.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, US News, Guantanamo Bay, US Military, US Navy

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Brooklyn Prosecutors Looking Closely at Terror Witness in Italy

In a decade-long journey, the Tunisian went from drug pusher on the streets of Milan, to Islamic militant trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans, to potential key witness against Guantanamo Bay detainees.

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Related Topix: Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY, US News, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Terrorism

CBS News

Behind Missed Gitmo Deadline: Detainees Unwanted

President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison - partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Cuba, World News, Activism

Wed Nov 18, 2009

ClipSyndicate

Congress questions officials about vaccine shortage

With nearly 4,000 swine flu deaths so far in the U.S. Congress wants to know, are terror suspects getting the vaccine first, before students, pregnant women, and sick Americans? A key health official did a 180 when pressed on that Wednesday.

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Related Topix: US News, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Marsha Blackburn, Medicine, Influenza, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

Kane Co. Chronicle

Our View: Consider all on Thomson

Put aside for a moment apprehensions about possible negative impacts on northwestern Illinois posed by dozens of newly arrived Gitmo terrorist suspects, and the conversion of the little-used Thomson Correctional Center into a federal prison makes sense.

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Related Topix: Thomson, IL, Donald Manzullo, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Illinois, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

Fox News

British Judge: Gitmo Evidence Can Be Kept Secret

British spies can keep some evidence secret from former Guantanamo prisoners who are suing the government for alleged complicity in their detention, a British judge ruled Wednesday, the first volley in a legal battle to expose what role Britain played in the men's imprisonment.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News

WMTW-TV Auburn

Obama: No Exact Deadline For Closing Gitmo

President Barack Obama says he won't set a new deadline for closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison, but does expect the facility to shut down sometime next year.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News

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