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Gitmo North?

3:07 PM, May 20, 2009 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB
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Think how easy it will be to track them in the snow:

Carl Levin , chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said that construction and staffing at a new maximum-security prison in Michigan could help his cash-starved state.

"If the governor and the local officials are open to it, that's something that should be considered," said Levin, making the point that each state should make its own determination.

Former Michigan Gov. John Engler, a Republican, suggested this month that creating a "Guantánamo North" in the Upper Peninsula could net the state upward of $1 billion per year, according to reports.

As Obama might say, better to fight the terrorists in Flint than Fallujah. Better to interrogate them in Detroit than Damascus. Better to release them in Kalamazoo than Karachi.

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