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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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.

" 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.