From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

A major turnaround on Guantanamo Bay.

Hello again, I'm Marvin Olney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

The Bush Pentagon now says inmates at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere are entitled to Geneva Convention

protections after all. We'll update a Senate committee debate on what the rules ought to be

for the treatment and trials of suspects in the war on terror. Also today, increased violence

is creating an average of 90 new widows a day in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq.

As their husbands are killed, how do women fend for themselves and their children amid sectarian differences?

On reporter's notebook later on, the death toll is rising fast after multiple transit bombings in one of India's major cities.

First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Mormon. I'll only back with To the Point. 47 more deaths in Iraq today. That means more women deprived of husbands.

On To the Point, Iraqi officials report an average of 90 new widows a day since the invasion.

We'll hear about their plight and the chance of help from Iraq's new laws

and police forces. On reporter's notebook, what's behind seven coordinated bombings on

commuter trains in southern India? We'll get some perspective on that. First, this news update,

after last week's Supreme Court decision on inmates at Guantanamo Bay, White House spokesman

Tony Snow said today, we want to get it right.

He released a Defense Department memo saying that tamarist suspects are entitled to the protections of

the Geneva Conventions. Even before the announcement, Dmitri Sevastopolo had the story for the

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