The United States’ “war on terror” has been “extremely damaging” for human rights, and has been used as an excuse by totalitarian regimes to impose oppressive laws, a leading think tank said yesterday. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), traditionally viewed as an establishment body, concluded in a report that issues such as Guantanamo Bay mean that Washington can no longer “assume a high moral position”. Countries such as Pakistan and Uzbekistan have brought in so-called anti-terrorist laws insisting that they are not much different to the Patriot Act enacted by the Bush administration, said the report’s author, Professor Rosemary Foot. Full Story
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