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They nailed many more countries, even mine, for ways of handling of prisoners or for slowness of trials, etc...

True. I linked to the report below. But those countries aren't the ones being mentioned in the headlines and news articles.

If you look at the article Bowser linked to:

Report: 'US war on terror bankrupt'

Human rights organisation Amnesty International (AI) has issued an annual report in which the United States' war on terror is criticised as bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle.

The last year has seen "the most sustained attack on human rights and international humanitarian law in 50 years", AI says.

Its annual report notes a lively debate in the Arab world on issues of political, legal and judicial reform.

It goes on to say that despite this, grave human rights violations continued across the region.


In the report, the "sustained attack" phrase was intended to refer to the global situation. That's not what you would think if all you read was this article.

At the very end of the article we have this grudgingly tacked on:

Away from these dramatic events, Amnesty International continues to follow the widespread debate about political and legal reform in the Middle East and North Africa.

But it says that despite government promises of reform, human rights violations continued.

There were arbitrary political arrests and detentions in many countries, prisoners were held incommunicado for long periods, tortured and ill-treated, and the minimum standards for fair trials were often disregarded.


Whatever useful purpose the report might have accomplished, it's prime use will be, as always, as a political weapon against America, with Israel tacked on as a matter of routine.

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