Rice defends unlimited detention of suspected terrorists

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WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the unlimited detention of suspected terrorists saying, in an interview published on Tuesday, that it benefitted the United States and the entire world.

“You can’t allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them, because if they commit the crime, thousands of innocent people die,” she told the USA Today daily.

“We have never fought a war like this before,” she said referring to the global war on terrorism.

Rice, however, neither confirmed or denied the existence of secret CIA prisons abroad, the newspaper said referring to a report by the Washington Post last month that touched off investigations in several countries.

Enough said.