Ridge Says Bush Wants School Siege Plan
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The government is reviewing hostage-crisis tactics in light of the Russian school attack and will extend its heightened election-year vigilance against terrorism past the January presidential inauguration, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Thursday.
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Ex-US homeland security chief Tom Ridge says the use of torture is acceptable in extreme circumstances.
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PakistanÂs president tried to convince President Bush today that he was not backing away from fighting the Taliban.
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President Bush is promising to make secondary schools a priority in a second term, broadening an education agenda that critics say has left high schools behind.
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President Bush said on Tuesday he would tell the Republican convention that three-quarters of known al Qaeda leaders have been captured or killed, an increase from an earlier estimate of two-thirds.
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Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, the former governor and US Army sergeant who became linked in the public mind with color-coded warnings of possible terrorist
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President Bush said Wednesday he would order military action inside Pakistan if intelligence indicated that Osama bin Laden or other top terror leaders were hiding there. "Absolutely," Bush said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge met privately with Republican pollsters twice in a 10-day span last spring as he embarked on more than a dozen trips to presidential battleground states.
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President Bush sought Thursday to defend his record on fighting terrorism in the wake of a bleak intelligence report as he flew South on a campaign outing with the midterm elections drawing near.
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President Bush urged the Senate on Thursday to follow the House lead and approve a White House plan for detaining and interrogating terrorism suspects, saying, "The American people need to know we're working together to win the war on terror."
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President Bush said critics of his Iraq policies are advocating a "cut and run" strategy that would draw terrorists to American soil.
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President Bush on Wednesday urged  Iraqis to defy insurgents by voting in Sunday's elections and  said Americans who see the violence as "very discouraging"  should focus on long-term U.S. goals in the region.
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President George W. Bush said on Saturday that his upcoming budget proposal would emphasize restraint on domestic spending while putting defense and war costs for Iraq and Afghanistan as the top priority.
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SAN FRANCISCO - An American captured among a group of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters on Tuesday asked US President George W. Bush to commute his 20-year prison sentence for aiding Afghanistan&#39;s ousted Taliban government.
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The police chief and sheriff of Los Angeles could be candidates to become the next secretary of homeland security, outgoing secretary Tom Ridge says.
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President Bush, pressed by Democrats for an exit strategy from Iraq, will not give a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal but stress in his State of the Union speech the need to train Iraqi forces to take over security, the White House said on Monday.
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President George W. Bush said on Monday  said he hoped that a plan for U.S. and Russian experts to  analyze each other&#39;s proposal for a missile defense shield  would be beneficial.