Bush 'ready to accept anti-toture law'

The White house has finally agreed to a senator’s call for a law specifically banning cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign terror suspects, congressional leaders said in Washington today.

The White house has finally agreed to a senator’s call for a law specifically banning cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign terror suspects, congressional leaders said in Washington today.

It marks the end of months of resistance by the President George Bush’s administration to Senator John McCain’s campaign.

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