The cell block on a typical ward. Guantanamo detention center on Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for enemy combatants captured in the global war on terrorism. Photos by Sgt. Sara Wood, U.S. ArmyFrom Yahoo News/AP:
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.
Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the 229 suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
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Update: Obama Administration to Create a Courtoom-Within-a-Prison Complex -- Digital Journal
My Comment: The whole point of housing these suspected Al Qaeda/Talibam/terrorists out of the country was to keep them away from the U.S. legal system on the grounds that the evidence collected would be insufficient in a U.S. courtroom to convict. It now seems that the Obama administration is reversing this process, and is laying the groundwork for trials of these suspects on U.S. soil.