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...Rice's response to questions about torture will also have done little to assuage the increasing alarm, even among close allies such as Britain, over the U.S. handling of terror suspects at Guantanamo and elsewhere. And her tough talk on Iran in response to the suggestion by Republican senator Lincoln Chafee for greater engagement with Tehran will have raised alarm bells in Europe, particularly coming on a rising tide of media speculation about possible U.S. military action on Iran...
...Qaeda theory - lent weight by a confession Habib has since retracted - made the then 46-year-old too risky to release. As a result, he has spent three years behind bars, first in an Egyptian jail where he claims he was tortured, then at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He's also been in a legal no man's land, deemed an "enemy combatant" but neither charged with a crime nor declared a prisoner of war. A military tribunal last year found that Habib was "a member of, or affiliated with, al-Qaeda forces, or associated forces...
...about waterboarding, but he did generally support the thrust of the Justice Department's decision to severely constrict the definition of torture. Senator Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin elicited Gonzales' acknowledgment that the new Bush Administration policy on torture had "migrated" to the CIA and Pentagon and from there to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Not one of the Senators bothered to ask whether the President had been informed by his close aide Gonzales that the U.S. had changed its policy on torture. "Why ask?" said a staff aide. "He'd say he couldn't recall. He couldn't even tell...
...inappropriate to elicit information from those intent on the mass murder of civilians. But physical assault is something else entirely. The world now knows that the Bush White House at least tacitly approved the loosening of standards that led to the outrages of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo-and that no one of significance has been sacked for it. True, the offending memo was recently retracted, but the Administration's position on torture remains astonishingly fuzzy. When asked by Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois if U.S. personnel could legally engage in torture under any circumstances, Gonzales said, "I don't believe...
...GUANTANAMO A PROBLEM...