The war on terror is corrupting all it touches | Simon Jenkins

Every student agitator is a terrorist, every internet hacker, cafeteria dissident, freedom fighter and insurgent leader

On Monday the BBC Panorama programme substantiated an extraordinary allegation that suggested how far the war on terror has descended into legal abyss. The claim was that MI6 rolled the pitch for Tony Blair's bizarre 2004 hug-in with Libya's Colonel Gaddafi by apparently arranging for the CIA to kidnap Gaddafi's opponent in exile, Abdel Hakim Belhaj. He was seized in...