Amnesty condemns US-led war on terror

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has been urged to use the EU Presidency and next month’s meeting with George Bush to tell the US president to stop what is described as the undermining of the legitimacy of international and human rights laws.

Publishing its annual report yesterday, Amnesty International attacked the US-led “war on terror” and also the “callous, cruel and criminal attacks by armed groups such as al-Qaida.”

The response of governments to the security threat posed by certain groups is frightening, said Sean Love, Amnesty’s Irish executive director.