OUT OF A BLACK HOLE.

The article explores the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against President George W. Bush's post-September 11 policy that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to al Qaeda terrorist suspects. The president revealed the transfer of top al Qaeda suspects from Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) overseas prisons to the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay (Cuba). He maintains, along with CIA officials, that techniques employed at the secret prisons provided necessary intelligence gains. INSETS: TERROR'S TRAIL;Gitmo Bound.