The Security Council resolution does not include a power to intern detainees on the basis that they are regarded as a threat to national security or otherwise.
So, anyway, does he understand at all the concerns that some Americans have about whether or not this puts Illinois in any sort of jeopardy security-wise, one hundred or so detainees coming to one facility?
Where demanded by justice and national security, we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders -- namely, highly secure prisons that ensure the public safety.
But their bottom line argument amounted to this: A military commander at a secure overseas military facility in a time of war couldn't remove disruptive lawyers who were inciting captured enemy detainees and endangering the safety and security of military personnel unless he first got permission from a federal judge.
Jim Steinberg, a former deputy national security adviser during the Clinton administration, said moving the detainees to Guantanamo Bay also sets an example.
Obama has banned the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen since January 2010 because of security concerns after a would-be bomber attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound flight on instructions from al-Qaida operatives in Yemen.
It was always our intent to transfer detainees to other countries only under conditions that provide assurances that our security is being protected.
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"It was always our intent to transfer detainees to other countries only under conditions that provide assurances that our security is being protected, " Mr Obama said on Tuesday, during a briefing on security reviews ordered after the airliner plot.
It is also likely that detainees, with help from counsel, would pressure prison officials to remove special security restrictions.
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The US military considers Bagram detainees unlawful combatants who can be detained for as long as they are deemed a threat to Afghan national security.
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