Bush, Republicans forge terrorism trial deal
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President Bush bowed to pressure   from leading senators in his Republican party on Thursday,   revising a bill for interrogating terrorism suspects that   critics had said would allow abusive treatment.
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The White House and GOP senators reached an agreement on a bill setting out procedures for interrogating terror suspects and trying them in front of military tribunals, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced Thursday.
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The US president and rebel senators reach a deal on a controversial bill on interrogating terror suspects.
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U.S. military lawyers on Thursday   challenged President George W. Bush's plan to try terrorism   suspects, including the accused September 11 mastermind, as   Democrats charged the White House with election-year   fearmongering.
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President Bush has agreed conditionally to let a court review his eavesdropping operations under a deal that, for the first time, would open an important part of his once-secret terrorism surveillance to a constitutional test.
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Jordan began on Wednesday the trial of three Islamists accused of plotting to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush when he visited the kingdom last year.
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President Bush will be facing a tough crowd as he steps behind closed doors to ask House Republicans divided by the politics of war to support his drive for more power to spy on, imprison and interrogate terrorism suspects.
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The Bush administration faced pressure on Tuesday to overhaul how it brings foreign terrorism suspects to trial after the surprise dismissal of war crimes charges against two prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
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President Bush and Republicans have gained some ground in their bid to hold onto Congress as a sustained GOP effort to portray Democrats and Iraq war critics as appeasing terrorists has swayed voters.
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President Bush has agreed conditionally to a court review of his antiterror eavesdropping operations under a deal that, for the first time, would open an important part of his once-secret surveillance to a constitutional test.
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Congress took major steps toward establishing a new system for dealing with terror suspects as the House approved legislation sought by President Bush.
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The first trials under a new system for trying foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, moved a step closer on Friday when a U.S. military prosecutor filed charges against three inmates.
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President George W. Bush went to the   U.S. Capitol on Thursday to prod fellow Republicans to back his   plans to track and try terrorism suspects, but some pushed   ahead with a competing measure the White House opposes.
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Seeking to quell an uprising over   its legislation on the treatment of foreign terrorism suspects,   the White House on Monday offered a revised plan to three   Republican senators who charge that its bill would subject   suspects to abusive interrogations and unfair trials.
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Republicans gather next week near the site of the country's worst terrorist attack to tout President George W. Bush's capacities as a wartime commander and launch him on his final run for re-election.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist  said on Monday he favored a plan by President George W. Bush  for trying foreign terrorism suspects but was still discussing  demands by some Republicans to give suspects more legal rights.
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New military trial rules for terrorism suspects that President George W. Bush endorsed and Congress approved will draw vigorous court challenges and could be struck down for violating rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution, critics and legal experts said.