The US government failed to adopt key recommendations made by a former panel investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks, including detainee treatment and arms proliferation, a report said Monday.

The report, made by former members of the late 9/11 Commission, criticized the Bush administration for not adopting proper standards in treating captured terror suspects and for lacking of progress on combating weapons proliferation related to terrorism.

It urged the US government to adopt standards for terror suspects that are in accord with international law.

Moreover, the country should work with its allies to develop mutually acceptable standards for terrorist detention and these standards should cover the treatment of detainees held by all elements of the US government, said the report.

On arms proliferation, Thomas Kean, former chairman of the commission, said although the issue is always regarded as the country's biggest threat and al Qaeda has sought nuclear weapons for a decade, "the most striking thing to us is that the size of the problem still totally dwarfs the policy response."

"In short, we still do not have a maximum effort against the most urgent threat," he said.

The bipartisan 9/11 commission was established as an independent investigative body by the US Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks and formally disbanded after submitting its final report in July last year.

At present, its former members continue working as the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, which tracks implementation of the report's recommendations.

Monday's report was presented as findings of the project.

Source: Xinhua