Intelligence services reveal concern on 15 'torture' cases
MI5 and MI6 have uncovered at least 15 cases in which British intelligence officers may have been complicit in the torture of terrorist suspects, which could lead to further police investigations.
The two services reviewed their files after Scotland Yard announced last week it would investigate claims by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed that former MI5 officers were complicit in his interrogation and torture. Mr Mohamed alleges that an MI5 officer supplied detailed questions concerning acquaintances and locations in London to his interrogators when he was tortured at a secret prison in Morocco following his arrest in Pakistan in 2002.
The 15 new cases concern individuals believed to include British nationals who were questioned under US control by British officers looking for information on possible terrorist attacks in the UK. Most date from between 2002 and 2004, when large numbers of terrorist suspects had been captured in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Unlike the US agents, the British officers were told to work within the provisions of the Geneva Convention, it was reported. In some instances the British officers voiced concerns that suspects were being mistreated, but their fears were not followed up.
Most of the interrogations were conducted immediately after the September 11 attacks, sources told the Daily Telegraph, when officers were not prepared for either the heavy caseload or the approach of their American counterparts.
Announcing the investigation into Mr Mohamed's claims, the Attorney General Baroness Scotland said that she and the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, had reviewed a "substantial body of material" relating to the case, including testimony from an MI5 officer.
"I have concluded that the appropriate course of action is to invite the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to commence an investigation into the allegations that have been made in relation to Binyam Mohamed," she said.
Mr Mohamed's claims were referred to Lady Scotland last year by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith after they surfaced in a High Court case brought by his lawyers.
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Yesterday The daily Telegraph was giving their official opinion that any review of the Binyam Mohamed case was "not in the Public interest".
Of cause it is in the Public interest.
We don't want that sort of thing going on.
Be that in Britain or outside of it.
I most certainly don't.
One thing leads to another and all this has to be nipped in the bud.
With British secret services brought to book about it.
And all those government ministers who are supposed to be responsible for them.
They are not above the law of the land, no matter how many times they break the law and get away with it. As they do, covering it up under 'security' and 'national defence'.
Time all this was sorted out.
FCO Finally Admits To Receiving Intelligence From Torture
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/index.htm
I am so glad we are the GOOD guys and if you doubts us we will TORTURE YOU till you see things our way, or one of our pals will either way we have put a target on over a billion people , thata the way to do it
'Justice Secretary Jack Straw to be Accused on Torture in Parliamentary Inquiry'
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has agreed to hear my evidence on torture on Tuesday 28 April at 1.45pm.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archi
investigatoirs. The International Court at the Hague and Nuremberg
would do a better job. Also they should look at the Diego Garcia torture
camp.
Much more to come.