US moral authority undercut by war on terror

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US moral authority undercut by war on terror

08-17-2011 • AFP

"Although the Obama administration abandoned the Bush administration's global war terminology, it has largely adopted (the latter's) global war legal framework," Hina Shamsi of the American Civil Liberties Union told AFP.

With indefinite detentions, military trials and targeted killings of terror suspects, the Obama team has "actually entrenched the global war framework," Shamsi said.

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