Summary
Residents of Leavenworth County and their northeast Kansas neighbors probably exhaled a sigh of relief upon learning this week that Fort Leavenworth was no longer being considered as a final destination for suspected terrorists and others being detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
We don't know how close Fort Leavenworth actually came to being named by President Barack Obama as the designated prison for suspected terrorists, but we are glad that possibility has finally been removed after months of uncertainty about the possible negative impacts on the surrounding communities and the fort's training mission.See the full content of this document
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No On Gitmo
Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts probably know more than most about how close Kansas came to hosting Gitmo detainees. Their actions to block confirmation of ...
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