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Bush signs bill to interrogate, prosecute terror suspects
POSTED: 10:16 a.m. EDT, October 17, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush signed legislation Tuesday authorizing tough interrogation of terror suspects and smoothing the way for trials before military commissions, calling it a "vital tool" in the war against terrorism.
Bush's plan for treatment of the terror suspects became law just six weeks after he acknowledged that the CIA had been secretly interrogating suspected terrorists overseas and pressed Congress to quickly give authority to try them in military commissions.
"With the bill I'm about to sign, the men our intelligence officials believe orchestrated the murder of nearly 3,000 innocent people will face justice," Bush said.
Among those the United States hopes to try are Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, as well as Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, an alleged would-be 9/11 hijacker, and Zayn al-Abidin Abu Zubaydah, who was believed to be a link between Osama bin Laden and many al Qaeda cells.
"It is a rare occasion when a president can sign a bill that he knows will save American lives," Bush said. "I have that privilege this morning."
Bush signed the bill in the White House East Room, at a table with a sign positioned on the front that said "Protecting America." He said he signed it in memory of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
"We will answer brutal murder with patient justice," Bush said. "Those who kill the innocent will be held to account."
Among those in the audience were military officers, lawmakers who helped pass the bill and members of Bush's Cabinet.
He singled out for praise, among others, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who has come under sharp criticism in recent months as violence has soared in Iraq.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/17/bush.terrorism.ap/index.html
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Now we're getting somewhere in this war on terror! We'll teach them what Democracy is all about!
"The law protects detainees from blatant abuses during questioning -- such as rape, torture and "cruel and inhuman" treatment -- but does not require that any of them be granted legal counsel. Also, it specifically bars detainees from filing habeas corpus petitions challenging their detentions in federal courts. Bush said the process is "fair, lawful and necessary."
POSTED: 10:16 a.m. EDT, October 17, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush signed legislation Tuesday authorizing tough interrogation of terror suspects and smoothing the way for trials before military commissions, calling it a "vital tool" in the war against terrorism.
Bush's plan for treatment of the terror suspects became law just six weeks after he acknowledged that the CIA had been secretly interrogating suspected terrorists overseas and pressed Congress to quickly give authority to try them in military commissions.
"With the bill I'm about to sign, the men our intelligence officials believe orchestrated the murder of nearly 3,000 innocent people will face justice," Bush said.
Among those the United States hopes to try are Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, as well as Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, an alleged would-be 9/11 hijacker, and Zayn al-Abidin Abu Zubaydah, who was believed to be a link between Osama bin Laden and many al Qaeda cells.
"It is a rare occasion when a president can sign a bill that he knows will save American lives," Bush said. "I have that privilege this morning."
Bush signed the bill in the White House East Room, at a table with a sign positioned on the front that said "Protecting America." He said he signed it in memory of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
"We will answer brutal murder with patient justice," Bush said. "Those who kill the innocent will be held to account."
Among those in the audience were military officers, lawmakers who helped pass the bill and members of Bush's Cabinet.
He singled out for praise, among others, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who has come under sharp criticism in recent months as violence has soared in Iraq.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/17/bush.terrorism.ap/index.html
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Now we're getting somewhere in this war on terror! We'll teach them what Democracy is all about!
"The law protects detainees from blatant abuses during questioning -- such as rape, torture and "cruel and inhuman" treatment -- but does not require that any of them be granted legal counsel. Also, it specifically bars detainees from filing habeas corpus petitions challenging their detentions in federal courts. Bush said the process is "fair, lawful and necessary."
