WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid rising debate over America's legal and moral obligations in the treatment of suspected or potential terrorists, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States will always play by international rules.
The top U.S. diplomat was traveling Thursday to Middle Eastern nations where President Bush is unpopular and the U.S. terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is shorthand for a foreign policy seen as discriminatory to Muslims.
"For the United States, an essential element of the rule of law has always been and still remains law among nations," Rice told an American Bar Association international law gathering Wednesday. "We have always respected our international legal obligations and we have led the world in developing new international law."
The first stop on Rice's trip is Bahrain, for an international meeting meant to promote democracy, development and accountable government in the Middle East. She has a full agenda in Saudi Arabia, which has been working to rebuild a network of political and economic contacts with the United States, a long-standing ally estranged by the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
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