US President George W. Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address that he wants to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to meet threats from terrorists who can now use cell phones and the Internet to communicate. Bush urged Congress to pass new legislation, saying: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — also known [...]

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told reporters Saturday that the Australian government has given Dr. Mohammad Haneef permission to leave Australia, reversing a previous decision to place the former terror suspect under home detention . Haneef's transfer to home detention followed the Australian chief prosecutor's decision Friday to drop the terror charge Haneef faced in connection with June's attempted UK [...]

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