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Show World&Mation Pase 10 Fr/doy, Jan. 23, 2009 Obama to dose Guantanamo, CIA jails WASHINGTON (AP) -Breaking forcefully with Bush anti-terror policies, President Barack Obama ordered major changes Thursday that he said would halt the torture of suspects, close down the Guantanamo detention center, ban secret CIA prisons overseas and fight terrorism "in a mannerTfiaf is consistent with our values and our ideals." ,"We intend to win this fight. We're going to win it on our terms," Obama declared, turning U.S. policy abruptly on just his second full day in office. He also put a fresh emphasis on diplomacy, naming veteran troubleshooters for Middle East hotspots. The policies and practices that Obama said he was reversing have been widely reviled overseas, by U.S. allies as well as in less-friendly Arab countries. President George W. Bush said the policies were necessary to protect the nation after the Sept. 11,2001, terror attacks - though he, too, had said he wanted Guantanamo closed at some point. "A new era of American leadership is at hand," Obama said. Executive orders signed by the new president would order the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, shut within a year, require the closure of any remaiping'secret CIA "black site" prisons abroad and bar^IA interrogators of detainees from using h?Ush techniques already banned for military questioners. That includes physical abuse such as waterboarding, a technique that creates the sensation of drowning and has been termed torture by critics at home and abroad. For the signing ceremony, Obama was flanked in the Oval Office by retired senior U.S. military leaders who had pressed for the chang- es. Underscoring the new administrations point, the admirals and generals said in a statement: "President Obama's actions today will restore the moral authority and strengthen the national security of the United States." Not everyone felt that way. Criticism surfaced immediately from Republicans and others who said Obama's policy changes would jeopardize U.S. ability to get intelligence about terrorist plans or to prevent attacks. House Minority Leader John Boehner was among a group of GOP lawmakers who quickly introduced legislation seeking to bar federal courts from ordering Guantanamo detainees to be released into the United States. Boehner, R-Ohio, said it "would be irresponsible to close this terrorist detainee facility" before answering such important questions as where the detainees would be sent. Obama said he was certain that the nation s security is strengthened - not weakened - when the U.S. adheres to "core standards of conduct." "We think that it is precisely our ideals that give us the strength and the moral high ground to be able to effectively deal with the unthinking violence that we see emanating from terrorist organizations around the world," he said. "We don't torture," Obama said, but Bush Utah mom sues Colo, camp over death ofteenager SALTLAKE'CITY(AP) - After a month in a wilderness therapy camp, Caleb Jensen's body was being ravaged by disease. The Utah teenager, sentenced by juvenile authorities to 60 days at a rigorous boot camp, was being forced to take long hikes in the Colorado backcountry without water. He was dragged by.arm and wrist restraints wheti'he stumbled in pain by counselors who believed he was faking an illness, according to a lawsuit filed in Utah by his mother last week. At night trie Boy was "tarped" or bound tightly in a tarp to prevent his escape. Other ThemeCross times, his shoes were taken away. He was given a diaper when he soiled his sleeping bag. Eventually, he couldn't summon the strength to crawl out of the bag, later discarded as a "bio hazard," the lawsuit alleges. Jensen died the following day, May 2,2007. He was 15. Dawn Boyd Woodson, of the Salt Lake city suburb of Murray, says the staff of Alternative Youth Adventures ignored obvious signs of her sons deteriorating medical condition and instead accused him of "behavior issues." It planned to keep him longer as punishment, she said in court papers. Woodson by ACROSS-' I * "I In love ...with " • • - • romantic comediesfi----...exclaimed the fan i genre 5 Prime —— meridian std, 8 Clandestine maritime org. II Works, as a field I2"_wcn#tr\ (Firm refusal) 13' 'My Fall Greek Weddrtf (2002) ' •' 14" "Bridget^: The Edgaof -••Reason" (2004) 15 " Romanic* comedy .of 1988 starring Eddie Murphy, "Coming to ROMANTIC COMEDIES is-suing West Caldwell, N.J.-based Community Education Centers Inc., which ran the former Montrose, Colo.-based wilderness camp. CEC operates in 20 states, providing treatment for criminal defendants and managing a Delaware prison. It shut down the Colorado boot camp for troubled teens two months later. The company also faces a Colorado criminal trial in March over the boy s agonizing death; indictments against some of its staff members have been dismissed by Montrose County prosecutors, who nonetheless contend the boy's disease went untreated despite glaring symptoms. "This camp had an excellent reputation and stellar grades from the state agency that oversaw it," Colleen Scissors of Grand Junction, Colo., the company's criminal defender, said Thursday. A GUANTANAMO GUARD SITS IN A WATCH-TOWER overlooking the terrorist detention center. President Obama began overhauling treatment of terror suspects, signing orders on Thursday to close the detention center. AP photo had said the same. The question has always been defining the word. Later in the day, Obama visited the State Department to welcome newly confirmed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, emphasizing the importance his administration intends to give diplomacy in his foreign policy. He told Foreign Service officers and other department employees they "are going to be critical to our success." The president and Clinton jointly announced the appointment of former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who helped broker peace in Northern Ireland, as special envoy to the Middle East. Former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who helped write the peace deal that ended Bosnia's 1992-95 war, was named special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan. But for all the talk of a new era, it remained unclear how much of a shift Obama plans for the Middle East. Though he named high-profile envoys to regions where critics say American attention lagged under Bush, the Mideast policy Obama outlined was no different. He said he would aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians while also defending Israel's "right to defend itself." He called on Israel and Hamas to take steps to ensure the cease-fire that is in place in Gaza will endure. And he called on Arab states to show more support for the beleaguered Palestinian government of President Mahmoud Abbas. On the surface, those views mirror the Bush administrations. Iraq forced to cut spending BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's government will have dramatically less money to spend this year than expected because of plunging oil prices - a dire economic situation that's already forced the country to slash rebuilding plans by 40 percent, The Associated Press has learned. As the U.S. seeks a timetable for withdrawal, cutbacks on spending and jobs could trigger heightened violence. U.S. commanders have repeatedly warned that without speedy economic development and reconstruction, the sharp improvements in security since the U.S. troop surge of 2007 could be at risk in a country where about 38- perceat of the work force is estimated to have no job or just part-time employment. But rebuilding requires money. And with oil prices plummeting, the government has been forced to cut planned spending - by one-third overall and 40 percent for rebuilding, Iraqi officials told the AP - and to consider even deeper reductions. It's an ironic turnaround from just months ago when U.S. lawmakers complained that Iraq was swimming in cash from high oil revenues and should do more to help itself, rather than spend U.S. taxpayer money to rebuild. Iraq is almost entirely dependent on oil money. More than 90 percent of the government's revenues come from oil sales. 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