"...[T]his report is part of a broader campaign with much more ambitious goals: depriving the entire West of any conceivable weapon – military or nonmilitary – against terrorist organizations and thereby leaving it no choice but capitulation...
In short, it's impossible for any country to comply with the laws of war when fighting terrorists, because it will be presumed guilty unless proven innocent, and the only evidence acceptable to prove its innocence is by definition unobtainable...
Thus the bottom line is the same as that emerging from the UN's Gaza inquiry: International law leaves democracies no options in the face of determined terrorists except capitulation. You can't fight them, because then you're guilty of war crimes. But you also can't arrest and jail them, because they can simply start a hunger strike, which entitles them to a get-out-of-jail-free card..."