Playa del Ingles Gran Canaria: Guantanamo is empty moves
The closure of the world have criticized Guantanamo Bay detention center an important step closer. A high-security prison in the U.S. state of Illinois will become the new accommodation for prisoners of the military camp in Cuba.
How the White House confirmed, ordered President Barack Obama the Thomson Correctional Center in the northwest of the state to shop for the federal government. The governor of Illinois, Patrick Quinn, had been officially informed of the step.
Initially it was unclear how many Guantanamo inmates to be placed precisely at the prison about 240 miles west of Chicago. According to media reports, it could be up to 100 prisoners. In the camp in Cuba are still about 215 people detained.
Defense Robert Gates had recently stated, 116 should be transferred to other countries by them. The United States is a difficulty in finding host countries. For an accommodation of the remaining occupants U.S. territory had been in the U.S. long fierce resistance.
Obama had said when he took office in January 2009 to try to close Guantanamo within a year. Because many complex legal questions, but delayed the move. In mid-November for the first time Obama had to concede that the closure of the controversial camp can take place as planned by mid-January. are to be accommodated
While in most of the prison in Illinois criminal high security prisoners, will the rest of the institution under the responsibility of the Pentagon made, newspapers reported. Governor Quinn and the senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, had the Accommodation of Guantanamo inmates in the Thomson Institute made strong, because they hope to create thousands of jobs in the economically underdeveloped region. The Republicans oppose the idea because they fear terrorist attacks.
In October the U.S. Congress had given the green light for the transfer of prisoners to the American mainland, but only to them going there to the process. About a month, the Obama administration decided that the alleged mastermind of the attacks of 11 September 2001 in New York will be brought to justice. It is the American by far the largest and most spectacular terror trial ground.
The Thomson prison was built for 1,600 inmates according to press reports for some 120 million dollars and completed in 2001, was due to financial constraints of the state but not fully to the operation. Currently sitting there reportedly only one of 200 prisoners.
How the White House confirmed, ordered President Barack Obama the Thomson Correctional Center in the northwest of the state to shop for the federal government. The governor of Illinois, Patrick Quinn, had been officially informed of the step.
Initially it was unclear how many Guantanamo inmates to be placed precisely at the prison about 240 miles west of Chicago. According to media reports, it could be up to 100 prisoners. In the camp in Cuba are still about 215 people detained.
Defense Robert Gates had recently stated, 116 should be transferred to other countries by them. The United States is a difficulty in finding host countries. For an accommodation of the remaining occupants U.S. territory had been in the U.S. long fierce resistance.
Obama had said when he took office in January 2009 to try to close Guantanamo within a year. Because many complex legal questions, but delayed the move. In mid-November for the first time Obama had to concede that the closure of the controversial camp can take place as planned by mid-January. are to be accommodated
While in most of the prison in Illinois criminal high security prisoners, will the rest of the institution under the responsibility of the Pentagon made, newspapers reported. Governor Quinn and the senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, had the Accommodation of Guantanamo inmates in the Thomson Institute made strong, because they hope to create thousands of jobs in the economically underdeveloped region. The Republicans oppose the idea because they fear terrorist attacks.
In October the U.S. Congress had given the green light for the transfer of prisoners to the American mainland, but only to them going there to the process. About a month, the Obama administration decided that the alleged mastermind of the attacks of 11 September 2001 in New York will be brought to justice. It is the American by far the largest and most spectacular terror trial ground.
The Thomson prison was built for 1,600 inmates according to press reports for some 120 million dollars and completed in 2001, was due to financial constraints of the state but not fully to the operation. Currently sitting there reportedly only one of 200 prisoners.
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