ABSTRACT
In January 2009, the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, settled scores with American President George Bush's counterterrorism policy since 2001. According to Miliband, the ‘war on terror’ concept was ‘mis-leading and mistaken’ and was likely to have done more harm than good: Miliband wrote in an article in the Guardian 1 :
The more we lump terrorist groups together and draw the battle lines as a simple binary struggle between moderates and extremists, or good and evil, the more we play into the hands of those seeking to unify groups with little in common.
