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Bush Orders Death For 24 "Terrorists"

US President George W Bush has given the CIA permission to kill about 24 top terrorism suspects around the world whom it believes are plotting to attack American interests, a report said last night. The New York Times said Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders top the list.
Bush has given the CIA the go-ahead to kill the listed suspects if it is impractical to capture them and if civilian casualties can be minimised, the paper said.
But it quoted unnamed officials as saying that the approval of the list did not abolish a long-standing presidential executive order banning assassinations, as the terrorists are defined as "enemy combatants" and thus legal targets.