Cole Introduces Bill to Keep Guantanamo Bay Detainees Out of U.S.

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Cole Introduces Bill to Keep Guantanamo Bay Detainees Out of U.S.

U.S. Congressman Tom Cole (OK-4) introduced legislation today to prohibit use of the Department of Defense's (DOD) funds to transfer enemy combatants from Guantanamo Bay to the United States. It also prohibits using DOD's funds to build or repair holding facilities in the U.S. that would be used to house detainees. Cole's bill is H.R. 1012, the "Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility Safe Closure Act of 2009."

"Our country is engaged in an active war against terror," Congressman Cole said. "Closing the facility that houses many known terrorists is irresponsible and potentially dangerous. I cannot support a plan to close a facility that has safely held high security risk detainees in favor of a PR-move that may put Americans in the path of danger. The complex at Guantanamo Bay has housed terrorists who planned the American Embassy attacks in Yemen as well as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. These are dangerous terrorists that do not belong anywhere near American communities."

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