US President Obama Approves Elite Terror Suspect Team

World | August 24, 2009, Monday // 20:35
US President Obama Approves Elite Terror Suspect Team: US President Obama Approves Elite Terror Suspect Team US President Obama, accompanied by his oldest daughter Malia, 11, followed by his wife Michelle and daughter Sasha, 8, leave Air Force One after the First Family landed at Cape Cod Coast Guard Air Station on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, 23 August 2009.

US President Barack Obama has approved a new elite team to question key terror suspects, the White House has said.

The unit will be housed at the FBI headquarters in Washington and be overseen by the White House, the BBC reported.

The announcement came hours before the publication of fuller details of the CIA's treatment of terrorism suspects.

Also on Monday US media said the justice department was to reopen about a dozen prisoner abuse cases that could lead to prosecution of CIA employees.

The call for the reopening of the prisoner abuse cases - mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan - was made by the US Department of Justice's ethics office, the New York Times reported.

 

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