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Article: REP. SKELTON: FORT LEAVENWORTH NOT AN APPROPRIATE OPTION FOR GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 11, 2009
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Lexington, Missouri, Aug. 10 -- The House Armed Services Committee issued the following news release:
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressing serious concerns regarding the consideration of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as a potential site for detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Skelton, a long-time advocate for Professional Military Education, raised concerns that a number of Muslim countries would stop sending students to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth if Guantanamo detainees were transferred there. Skelton also noted that the United States Code precludes the proximate ...