Bush orders CIA 'black sites' closed

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush has ordered the CIA's controversial "black site" prisons in Eastern Europe and Asia to be closed. The action, reportedly carried out on the advice of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, ends the administration's 5-year initiative designed to hide interrogation techniques used on as many as 100 suspected terrorists, The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) reported Friday. [Continue reading]

Obama is now ordering the closing of the 'black sites'. If they were already closed, then why is Obama closing them again? My good friend on digg.com, Janinco, wrote a comment that refers to the other story. She wrote, "Here is the link to Obama's closing foreign prisons...the same one's Bush already closed!" Obama to Close Guantanamo and Foreign Prisons, Limit CIA Methods digg story, submitted by dat5150

Bin Laden Planning to Out-Do Sept. 11 Attack

Osama bin Laden is planning an attack against the United States that will "outdo by far" September 11, an Arab newspaper in London has reported.

And according to a former senior Yemeni al-Qaeda operative, the terrorist organization has entered a "positive phase", reinforcing specific training camps around the world that will lead the next "wave of action" against the West.

The warning, on the front page of an Arabic newspaper published in London, Al-Quds Al-Arabi - and widely reported in the major Italian papers - quotes a person described as being "very close to al-Qaeda" in Yemen.

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