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Rocky said:

take a look at France who has bowed down to everything they have asked for to keep the peace...

so how's that working for ya France?

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PARIS, France (AP) -- France's lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a tough new anti-terrorism bill Tuesday that includes increasing the use of video surveillance and allowing police more time to question terror suspects.

The National Assembly voted 373-27 in favor of the bill, which still needs to clear a Senate vote in January before becoming law.

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, leading efforts to strengthen France's laws against terrorism in response to July suicide bombings in London, sought to assure lawmakers the bill would not trample on civil liberties as some fear.

He told the National Assembly that the measures would allow police to pre-empt terror attacks and not work "after the fact."

"This debate has paved the way for providing France with a more efficient arsenal," he said. "The idea being that the worst should be avoided and that we must give greater powers to law enforcement to avoid a catastrophe."

Communist and Green party lawmakers voted against the bill, while the opposition Socialist Party abstained.

The bill would allow mosques, department stores and other potential targets to install surveillance cameras and stiffen prison terms for terrorists and those providing support.

It also would enable police to monitor people who travel to countries known to harbor terror training camps, and extend the detention period for terror suspects from four days to up to six days.

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Buzzm1 said:

I'm hoping that Jordan, and a few other Mideast countries capture some of the terrorists. They don't follow the Geneva Convention rules on treatment of prisoners, so if there is information to be gained from prisoners, they will obtain it. Maybe we will just ship our captured known terrorists over to them, and then there wouldn't be a problem, on our treatment of terrorists.

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