Town in Montana seeks to become new Guantanamo

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Smalltown USA's Guantanamo hopes

Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds travelled to the town of Hardin in the US state of Montana to find out why it has offered to take in some of the detainees.

They call eastern Montana "big sky country" - a vast sweep of prairie stretching from horizon to rugged horizon. Towering thunderclouds roiled the sky as we approached Hardin, population 3,400.
It is a long way from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But if people here get their way, up to 100 detainees now held in Guantanamo will soon be living in a brand new prison on the edge of town.

I toured the empty, never-used jail with Greg Smith, Hardin's economic development director. It is a windowless, low-slung tan concrete hulk surrounded by a double row of high mesh fence topped with gleaming coils of razor wire.

Earlier this month, Hardin's town council voted unanimously to offer the US government a deal: Send Hardin the detainees that most foreign countries and other cities the US are afraid to take.

"Why not us?" Smith asks. "They've got to go somewhere."

He dismisses security concerns over housing inmates former Bush administration officials famously described as "the worst of the worst". "We have some very hardened criminals in our own country that have committed some heinous crimes, and they are in communities all across this country," Smith argues.

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[whyverne]

1. Problem solved!

[Wednesdays]

2. K&R

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[cascadiance]

3. Can we put Max Baucus back there for terrorizing our health care systems?

[Karenina]

4. This is not the only newly-constructed EMPTY prison...

There is something VERY WRONG in America...