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Week of November 16, 2008 - November 22, 2008

South Carolina: You Made Your Bed-Now Sleep In It


U.S. Rep. Henry Brown introduced legislation Wednesday prohibiting the use of government funds to transport any terror detainees to the Navy brig in Hanahan from their current holding site at Guantanámo Bay, Cuba.

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Two safer locations, Brown suggested, are the federal "supermax" prison in the high desert of Colorado or the maximum-security military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Both are "better equipped to securely and separately hold hundreds of individuals with ties to terrorists, from civilians," he said.

Brown, a Republican, called any decision to consider the Charleston area "a horrible mistake."

Schuyler Kropf, "Brown acts to bar detainees from brig", The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC), November 20, 2008


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