Powers to intern terrorist suspects without trial will be dropped from the statute book.
Brennan is considered to be behind the administration's dramatic rise in the use of drones against terrorist suspects.
Yet in its treatment of terrorist suspects, Britain, like America, has undermined the values it purports to uphold.
The idea of military tribunals worries many of America's European allies, including those thinking of extraditing terrorist suspects.
Ms Rice refused to confirm or deny the existence of secret CIA prisons for interrogating terrorist suspects in Europe.
That said, many, if not most of the terrorist suspects arrested in Toronto on Friday, were not immigrants at all.
Saudi Arabia says that out of perhaps 3, 000 terrorist suspects and sympathisers arrested since 2003, some two-thirds have agreed to re-education programmes.
The Saudi security services continued to pursue terrorist suspects, six of whom were killed in a shoot-out in north-western Saudi Arabia .
The police have been extremely busy of late rounding up terrorist suspects.
He rejects, for instance, Mr. Bush's claim that government forces can use "enhanced interrogation" techniques for terrorist suspects, a practice banned by Congress.
The bill aims to make the UK's regime for freezing the assets of terrorist suspects more permanent, following a Supreme Court ruling in February.
After more than a year in power, Mr Obama has still not figured out what to do with terrorist suspects captured on foreign soil.
The initiative came after Israel said it planned to continue to withdraw troops from six Palestinian towns, declaring its mission to root out terrorist suspects accomplished.
Blair also said that deciding whether to prosecute terrorist suspects in a criminal court or by a military commission should be decided on a case-by-case basis.
The revelation comes as the European Court of Human Rights have allowed Abu Hamza, and four other terrorist suspects, to be extradited from Britain to the United States.
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Several Indonesians arrested in the Philippines on explosives charges have been linked to Jemaah Islamiyah, as have several Singaporean terrorist suspects whom the authorities claim have fled to Indonesia.
The Senate proposal is at odds with the White House over a key question, whether terrorist suspects should be able to see the evidence against them, even if it's classified.
At Wednesday's summit at the White House, further measures were agreed to bring the two sides closer together on issues of global security, including an agreement on extraditing terrorist suspects.
Obama is also expected to say the U.S. will make a renewed effort to transfer detainees out of the Navy-run detention center for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to other countries.
The treaty was originally designed to make it easier to bring terrorist suspects to justice but campaigners say it is being used to seek extradition for other offences such as fraud and drug trafficking.
After Sept. 11, the government established the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington as a clearinghouse for information on potential terrorist activities and suspects.
It allows the monitoring of international phone calls and other electronic communications to or from the US involving people the government suspects have terrorist links.
In addition, this official said, the United States is working with Lebanon to investigate a "potential al Qaeda link" between these suspects and the notorious terrorist group with loosely linked, active cells around the world.
Pervez Rashid, a spokesman for the Punjab provincial government, told Geo television the suspects "would be tried in anti-terrorist courts".
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Since the attempted attack, the intelligence community has scrubbed the entire Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) database of more than 500, 000 suspects with the new criteria, adding additional individuals to the U.S. watch lists and no-fly lists as a result.
Probably only a few of these new suspects owe any direct allegiance to Mr Basyir, JI or any other established terrorist organisation.
Meanwhile the Associated Press news agency reports the suspects' mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, was added at the CIA's request to a US terrorist watch list 18 months ago.
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