The anti-terror fight and ethical principles

Giovanni Fava, the chairman of the European parliamentary commission investigating CIA activities in Europe, stresses the importance of re-establishing ethical principles in the anti-terror fight, in an interview with Ana Carabajosa. "Europe's sense of responsibility in the wake of September 11 explains why the political response was so feeble. ... In Washington, the State Department told us that the country felt as if it were at war, that a dirty war was being fought in which the enemies are not nations, and in which, as a result, the Geneva Conventions did not apply and the concept of torture had to be modified. But this is not a real war. It a battle against terrorism being waged by our intelligence services. We cannot lower the level of legal and ethical guarantees."

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