Senator: Leavenworth not likely for detainees

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Senator: Leavenworth not likely for detainees
By John Milburn - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Feb 9, 2009 19:28:57 EST

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Sen. Sam Brownback said Monday that Washington policymakers are beginning to slow down and think through the decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and move the detainees.

Brownback said that as policymakers learn more about Fort Leavenworth and two other military sites being considered as possible locations for the prisoners, they’re less likely to want to move some of the 240 suspected terrorists to Kansas.

“We’re not out of the woods by any means. We have to keep up the fight,” Brownback said.

The senator was the featured speaker at a flag ceremony at Fort Leavenworth’s Command and General Staff College, which educates U.S. and international officers. Officers from 46 nations presented their flags as the next 10-month course got under way.

“We’re going to keep the central mission educational and not a detention facility for foreign-born terrorists,” Brownback told the officers.


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