David Miliband criticises George Bush's 'war on terror'

  Miliband's comments came as a senior Bush administration official admitted for the first time that a Guantanamo Bay detainee was tortured during questioning over links to the 9/11 attacks.

Susan Crawford, who oversees the tribunals for terror suspects at the US base in Cuba, said she believed the interrogation of Saudi national Mohammed al-Qahtani amounted to torture.

She said the frequency and the adverse effect of the torture on Qahtani's mental and physical state persuaded her that military questioners had crossed the line from harsh interrogation to illegality.