Military-Civilian Terror Prison Eyed

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. Army

From 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.