Kirk, Manzullo, IL Colleagues Urge President Obama to Abandon Efforts to move TIMO Detainees to NW Illinois

by Gary Kopycinski on March 11, 2011

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 11, 2011. Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL), Congressman Don Manzullo (R-Egan), and 8 of their Illinois colleagues today called on President Barack Obama to heed the bipartisan calls from Congress and abandon efforts to move terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo) or elsewhere abroad to a vacant prison in northwest Illinois.