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DETROIT The Arenac, Mich., County Board of Commissioners changed its collective mind Monday morning, sort of.

Sources tell Fox News that one scenario is that a "handful" of detainees who are already in the military courts at Guantanamo could be brought stateside as a "trial run" to test the system.

Even Democrats in Congress seem to realize that simply closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center and shipping scores of hardened terrorists to the United States is a bad idea.

The deadly shootout near Detroit involving the FBI and the leader of a radical Sunni Muslim group has fueled already simmering fears of some residents in Standish, Mich., where a proposal to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to an empty maximum security prison is dividing the community.

Sen. Lindsey Graham is the closest thing President Barack Obama has to an ally on the Republican side of the aisle.

The Pentagon has paid anti-war activist Noam Chomsky the highest honor any totalitarian entity can bestow upon an author: they've banned his book "Interventions" at Guantanamo Bay prison.

George fails to keep a secret about a friend; Kramer fingers Newman as a scofflaw.

From GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra's office, a demand for transparency from the Obama administration on its Gitmo relocation plans: [Hoekstra,] the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, used a rare, open hearing of a House Intelligence Subcommittee to highlight the fact that nine months to the day after President Barack Obama signed an ...

Seven ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees asked Britain's High Court on Tuesday to reject a government request that secret court sessions be used to hear allegations that Britain was complicit in their torture overseas.

One of the first things Barack Obama did as president was promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by January 2010.

In this Jan. 27, 2009, photo shows demonstrators protest in front of the White House in Washington, calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison.

GEORGIA: ARE GUANTANAMO BAY PRISONERS HEADING FOR TBILISI? Molly Corso 10/26/09 A senior Georgian official tells EurasiaNet that Tbilisi and Washington are discussing the possibility of Georgia accepting suspected terrorists currently being held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay on the island of Cuba.

Detainees talk together inside the open-air yard at the Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, May 31, 2009.

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In an interview with PJTV's Bill Whittle on Friday, former New York Times reporter and now Fox News pundit Judith Miller had nothing but praise for the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and claimed that not only was no one ever subjected waterboarding there, but that any harsh treatment took place only during the first four months of its ...

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File - In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a razor-wired fence is shown above the Camp Delta 2 and 3 base sign, in this June 25, 2005 file photo taken at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

Oct. 22: NBC's Mark Potter takes a close-up look at the increasing use of underground tunnels to transport illegal drugs under the U.S.-Mexico border.

Over the last month our nation has focused a great deal of attention on Gen. McChrystal's substantial troop request for our mission in Afghanistan.

A group of musicians are to launch a legal bid to discover if their songs were used in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay.

Three human rights groups said Friday they will spurn an invitation to tour the Guantanamo Bay prison next month because it doesn't include an opportunity to speak with prisoners.

The Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to weigh whether a federal judge has the power to release Guantanamo Bay prisoners into the United States continues a legal tug of war begun when the Bush administration opened the overseas detention camp.

In Woody Allen 's 1971 political satire, "Bananas," a prisoner is forced listen, over and over, to the cast recording from the 1920s musical "No, No Nannette." The scene is good for a laugh.

For nearly two decades, al-Qaida and groups it's inspired have tried to attack U.S. and other Western targets across the world, with mixed results.

Washington -- The ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee and a Standish restaurant owner urged the Obama administration to do a better job of notifying Congress on its possible plans to move terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay to Michigan.

Rock bands, including REM and Pearl Jam, want to know whether their music was played at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Supreme Court tentatively agreed Tuesday to accept an appeal from a group of native Chinese Muslims who had asked to be released into the United States from American military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A coalition of mega-bands and singers outraged that music - including theirs - was cranked up to help break uncooperative detainees at Guantanamo Bay is joining retired military officers and liberal activists to rally support for President Barack Obama's push to shutter the Navy-run prison for terrorist suspects in Cuba.Pearl Jam, R.E.M., and Trent ...

Afghan runoff set...Court to review Gitmo cases...Guilty plea in NJ UNITED NATIONS A second round of presidential elections is set for next month in Afghanistan , and the U.N. Secretary General says that will be a "huge challenge." But Ban Ki-moon is commending Afghan President Hamid Karzai for accepting a fraud panel's finding that threw out a ...

Sensitive U.S. intelligence on former Guantanamo Bay inmate Binyam Mohamed should be published, Britain's High Court ruled on Friday in a move condemned by the British government but welcomed by anti-torture campaigners.

The Standish City Council doesn't want terrorist suspects now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to come to this northeast Michigan town, going on the record this afternoon.

The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether judges can order the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoners into the U.S., accepting an inmate appeal opposed by the Obama administration and setting up a separation-of-powers showdown.

In this June 1, 2009 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, Chinese Uighur Guantanamo detainees show a home-made note to visiting members of the media, at Camp Iguana detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

Four former Guantanamo Bay prisoners who have settled in Bermuda are playing a behind-the-scenes role in the wealthy island's sporting event of the year.

The city council of Standish, Mich., voted 6-0 in support of a resolution that signals the city's willingness to proceed with the idea of transferring detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility .

Back in late July, , the Kirk campaign highlighted all the "Republicans positions" taken by Kirk in the 111th Congress.

House Democrats won a showdown vote Thursday preserving President Barack Obama's authority to temporarily transfer Guantanamo prisoners into the United States to be prosecuted in American courts.

The possible plan to bring Guantanamo Bay terror suspects to Michigan drew intense fire as a group opposed to the move says transferring prisoners here will make the state a magnet for terrorists.

Here's how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Oct.

Ten Guantanamo detainees are cleared for release by the Pentagon but unable to go home due to fears they will be tortured.

The 221 mass murderers, wrongly imprisoned innocents, and possibly dangerous in-betweens still at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp rank among the most vexing messes that President Obama inherited from his predecessor.

The former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed speaks at a fundraising event - the first time since his release enlarge Secret evidence about the alleged torture of a UK resident captured by the Americans must be made public, the High Court ruled yesterday in a judgment that raises serious questions about what Britain really knew of its ally's ...

The City Council in Standish, Mich., says it has delayed a plan to allow detainees from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to be housed at the Standish state prison.

Putting the masterminds behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on trial in New York City is a bad idea, according to Rep.

In this March 15, 2002 file photo, an inmate of Camp X-Ray is escorted by two guards while other inmates are seen in their cells in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Navy Base, Cuba, in this March 15, 2002 file photo.

Instead, by a 224-193 vote, the House stood by a Democratic plan to allow suspected enemy combatants held at the controversial facility in Cuba to be shipped to U.S. soil - but only to be prosecuted for their suspected crimes.

The House stood by a Democratic plan to allow suspected enemy combatants held at Guantanamo to be shipped to U.S. soil only to be prosecuted for their suspected crimes.

Ex-Al Qaeda 'military commander' Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. WASHINGTON - The confessed 9/11 mastermind and four other killers from Guantanamo Bay may soon be flown to New York to face death penalty trials, the Daily News has learned.

A group of Chinese Muslims detained for years at the Guantanamo Bay military prison should be allowed to settle in the United States, an exiled leader of the ethnic minority said Wednesday.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Tuesday he was committed to President Barack Obama's goal of closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and was firming up which inmates Spain would take.

There are 241 remaining detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay , and the president says he will shut it down in early 2010.

This month's scheduled shutdown of the Standish Maximum Correction Facility and the loss of its 300 jobs has supporters and opponents of housing Guantanamo Bay inmates busy.

Congressional leaders have decided to allow detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be brought to the United States to face civilian or military trials, legislative aides said Wednesday.

Two detainees released from the U.S. military's prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been transferred to Kuwait and Belgium, the Department of Justice announced Friday.

GUANTANAMO BAY PRISONERS: Voting 208 for and 216 against, the House on Oct. 8 defeated a Republican bid for firmer measures in HR 2647 against transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States.

Despite a vague veto threat by President Barack Obama, the House on Thursday easily passed a major defense policy bill that calls for continued development of a costly alternative engine for the Pentagon's next-generation fighter jet.

A Canadian detainee charged with war crimes fired his military lawyer Wednesday and was given two new civilian attorneys during a court proceeding at Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. spokesman said.

U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday reached an agreement that would allow the Obama administration to continue bringing foreign terrorism suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison to the United States to face trial.

Politico : "Greg Craig, the top in-house lawyer for President Barack Obama, is getting the blame for botching the strategy to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison by January -- so much so that he's expected to leave the White House in short order.

Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he is worried lawmakers' opposition to bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to U.S. prisons could hurt the effort to close the detention center.

Greg Craig , the top in-house lawyer for President Barack Obama , is getting the blame for botching the strategy to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison by January - so much so that he's expected to leave the White House in short order.

Former hotels, nursing homes and other sites would be used to hold immigrants who are not criminals or violent as part of a larger plan to reform immigration detention proposed by the homeland security secretary, according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

For up to four hours a day, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept.

SANA'A, Sept. 27- A 26-year-old Yemeni detainee from the Aden governorate, named Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, was released from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba on Saturday, September 26 after being imprisoned for seven years, according to the US Justice Department.

The motion, introduced by Rep. Hal Rogers [official website], instructs House conference committee members to insist on the prohibition during negotiations with the Senate on the 2010 Appropriations Bill [text] for the Deparment of Homeland Security [official website]. Rogers said that the detainees "pose a serious and documented threat to our ...

A guard tower is shown at the closed 'Camp X-Ray' at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay.

The House went on record Thursday against allowing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to be transferred to the United States, even to face trial or to be jailed in maximum-security prisons.

A military judge will hear motions in the case of a North Carolina soldier who was recalled to duty so he could be tried for a 1985 triple slaying.

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