Closing Guantanamo Bay dentention center,will be a big mistake.

[52ndStreet]

Presidnet Barack Obama's plan to close the U.S. dentention center in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, will be a big mistake.

Where will these terrorists go?.What state will want to accept terrorists?.
Now that these people will be held on American soil, will the American Government be libel for lawsuits by detainees?.The legal quagmire that the closing of Guantanamo Bay Gitmo dentention center will open up, will be many.
President Obama, is jeopardizing American national security, and opening up America to letigation from detainees from the Guantanamo Bay dentention center.

 

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Guantanamo North...

Special US prison units fill with Muslims
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 - US federal prisons for the past three years have housed special units filled disproportionately with Muslim inmates whose every communication with the outside world is strictly monitored.

Known as “Guantanamo North,” the so-called Communication Management Units (CMU) were secretly opened in 2007 in maximum security prisons in Terre Haute, Indiana and Marion, Illinois and currently have 71 prisoners, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) said. The US public radio network, NPR, recently published the names, nationalities and reasons for incarceration of 86 of more than 100 detainees who have passed through them, information never before disclosed by the bureau.

NPR found that a number of detainees were convicted of terrorism offenses, but mixed in with them were white supremacists and common criminals. The CMU’s are designed to severely limit detainees’ contacts with the outside world, to prevent them from organizing crimes or settling accounts from behind bars, -harassing their victims or proselytizing when there is a risk of religious radicalization.

The aim is to “ensure the safe, secure and orderly running of BOP facilities, and to protect the public,” the bureau said in documents. However, while Muslims account for 6 percent of the inmate population in federal prisons as a whole, in the CMUs “somewhere between 65 and 72 percent of the population is Muslim,” said Alexis Agathocleous, an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. “So, that’s a tenfold over representation. That obviously raises concerns about religious profiling,” he said.

Agathocleous represents five current and former inmates of CMU’s who are suing to challenge their incarceration in units “cut off from the outside world.” He said some of his clients have never been convicted of terrorist offenses, nor committed any disciplinary infractions or broken the rules on communication at other prisons where they have been held.

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