Human rights activists Wednesday urged the US government to be more consistent in its approach toward repressive regimes, warning that muddled responses sent the wrong message to democracy campaigners. America's over-arching focus on security concerns and the fight against terrorism is obscuring the need to hold governments accountable for rights abuses, activists said at the start of a two-day seminar organized by the Washington-based group Human Rights First. One delegate, Nadine Wahab, said US policy after the coup in Egypt, including a partial freeze in military aid which has halted delivery of large weapons systems but does not bar other arms, was part of the problem. "When funding... continues to go to the weapons that attack and create human rights violations, like tear gas and bullets, but you hold the F-16s, the message that's going to these governments and going to human rights defenders is that human rights is not important," said Wahab, an expert