Housing Gitmo Detainees

January 23. 2009

President Obama

Many in the press and in politics are wondering where Guantanamo Bay prisoners will be housed a year from now when the prison in Cuba officially closes.

Gitmo

There are many options. Why not reopen a U.S. prison like Alcatraz, famed for its sternness and austerity, to house Gitmo detainees. It’s an isolated island away from the mainland but still apart of the United States.

Alcatraz

Another holding spot could be the area set to undergo conversion at Sing Sing.

Sing Sing

There are also individual islands around America, apart of the country, with singular homes on each, one of which can be converted into a prison.

Prisoners currently at Gitmo

They can be retrofitted to be smaller Supermax type lockdowns to hold detainees. It’s not like your trying to recreate the Four Seasons.

STORY SOURCE

Guantánamo detainee resurfaces in terrorist group

Published: January 23, 2009 - BEIRUT: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order that President Barack Obama signed that the detention center be shut down within a year. The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.

His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by a U.S. counterterrorism official. "They're one and the same guy," said the official, who insisted on anonymity because he was discussing an intelligence analysis. "He returned to Saudi Arabia in 2007, but his movements to Yemen remain unclear."…

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