While he says his organisation does not order or sanction attacks, he offers this explanation for them.
For all his display of confidence, two things stand out at the end of this week: the great difficulty he will have in realising his public-service agenda; and his vulnerability should the cabinet split, as is entirely possible, over British involvement in a non-UN sanctioned attack on Iraq.
By contrast, Mr Brown sanctioned attacks on Mr Blair and his closest supporters with destructive zeal.
In a report published on Tuesday, the group accuses the government of Mr Rajapaksa of sanctioning attacks on journalists, the judiciary, activists and opposition politicians.
They also accuse the government of sanctioning attacks because it bowed to pressure from hardliners in 2008 and passed a decree banning Ahmadis from proselytising or worshipping in public.
The rescue of the Iranians appeared to put the Iranian government in an awkward position as it strikes a defiant posture in the face of new economic sanctions attacking its oil exports.
Alas, Mr Cameron is under pressure from his own party to campaign hard against AV, and says a Tory MP involved in the "No" campaign has sanctioned attacks portraying AV as a "vote for Nick Clegg", painting the Lib Dem boss as a would-be kingmaker in future elections.A protest party grows upSo which path should the Lib Dems follow?
The APA goes on to note that many hate crime perpetrators believe "that society sanctions attacks on certain groups": "For example, Dr Karen Franklin, a forensic psychology fellow at the Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training, has found that, in some settings, offenders perceive that they have societal permission to engage in violence against homosexuals".
The urgency of finding a non-violent way to change Iran's mind on enrichment stems in large part from the administration's fear that Israel might give up on the diplomacy-plus-sanctions approach and attack Iran's nuclear installations unilaterally, a move that would unavoidably draw the United States into the fray.
Hence Parliament's refusal to sanction an attack on Syria.
