UN Anti-Terror Effort Bogged Down Over Terrorism Definition

(Compiler's note: It is hard for me to imagine a more useless organization than the U.N.)

(CNSNews.com) – Seven years after the U.N. Security Council responded to 9/11 with a tough resolution aimed at tackling the scourge of terror, its ability to do so remains hamstrung by a failure to agree of a definition of terrorism – and by policies evidently designed to avoid embarrassing or annoying member states.

A long-running effort to define terrorism repeatedly has run into hurdles erected by mostly Islamic states determined that the fight against occupation – especially the one waged by the Palestinians – should be explicitly exempted. ....