Um, Duh

Gee, who would have thunk this was a bad idea?

• The White House announced Tuesday it is halting the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, a move that could complicate President Barack Obama's plans to close the controversial prison.

  It also stands to sharply increase the number of Guantanamo inmates who could be moved to rural Thomson, Ill., site of a state prison the Obama administration wants to buy and operate as a federal prison and military detention center.

  Some supporters have sold the idea of "Gitmo North" to local residents as the destination for no more than 100 former Guantanamo detainees, though the White House has never committed to that limit.

  Ninety-one Yemeni detainees currently make up almost half the 198 detainees remaining in the U.S. facility on a naval base in Cuba.

So many Yemenis seem to "escape" local prisons once they get back home and then are mysterious caught, wounded or killed on Afghanistan and Iraqi battlefields that one has to wonder if Governor Quinn had a direct hand in helping release them from Gitmo the way he's littering Chicago and Illinois streets with violent felons committing brazen homicides on tape.