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From: The Washington Times | July 5, 2009
MARION, Ill. | Once the nation’s most secure prisons, the federal lockup in southern Illinois, has housed everyone from spies to a Colombian druglord to dapper mob boss John Gotti. Now the mayor of Marion hopes to roll out the welcome mat for a new set of accused criminals: terrorism suspects now held at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. While other cities across the United States have balked at taking in any of the more than 200 detainees from the infamous lockup in Cuba that President Obama hopes to shutter, Marion is part of a small contingent seeking …
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