Not Forgotten

This cartoon originally appeared on March 11, 2003 and is in our book Black & White World II.

From CNN: Bush: CIA kept terror suspects in secret prisons.

President Bush on Wednesday for the first time acknowledged the use of secret CIA prisons outside U.S. borders to hold top suspects captured in the war on terrorism.

In a speech at the White House, Bush said captured terror suspects have been the best intelligence source in efforts to stop new attacks and listed attacks blocked because of this intelligence.

The CIA program has "saved innocent lives," the president said.

Bush said torture was not part of the program and he had not authorized any form of torture, saying American law forbids it.

Bush said locations of the prisons will remain secret.

"They are in our custody so they cannot murder our people," Bush said of the detainees.

The program "helped take potential mass murderers off the streets," Bush said.

Bush said that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is among 14 high-level detainees to be transferred from CIA to Pentagon custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where, with congressional approval of new military tribunals, they would face trial.

Posted by Forkum at September 6, 2006 09:06 PM