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Different US locations weighed for Gitmo trials

August 3, 2009 By The Associated Press DEVLIN BARRETT (Associated Press Writer)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring at a January deadline, the Obama administration is debating between two dramatically different schemes for putting Guantanamo Bay detainees on trial: big-city courtrooms in the nation's capital, New York and Virginia — or a one-of-a-kind superjail in the Midwest.

And the participants, working in tense but amicable secret meetings, know the final and politically volatile...

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