‘No desire to be world’s jailer’

US SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice declared yesterday that America had no desire to be the “world’s jailer” as she sought to reassure Europeans worried over Washington’s war on terror.

On the opening day of her visit to the north-west of England as guest of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, she insisted that the US remained committed to the rule of law.

But in a keynote speech, delivered at the Ewood Park home of Mr Straw’s beloved Blackburn Rovers, she warned that the Bush administration would be judged “harshly” at home if it released detainees who went on to commit terrorist atrocities.