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Government says new law bars terrorism detainee suits

President George W. Bush signed legislation to allow the trial of suspected terrorists by military tribunals, and his administration immediately used the law to challenge suits by hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees. The government took its first action under the new Military Commissions Act, which Bush said “provides a way to deliver justice to the terrorists” ...

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