Britain's shame over torture and rendition after 9/11

Britain's shame over torture and rendition after 9/11

Postby McAz » Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:10 pm

13 incidents where UK personnel witnessed at first hand a detainee being mistreated by others

25 where UK personnel were told by detainees that they had been mistreated by others

128 incidents recorded where agency officers were told by foreign liaison services about instances of mistreatment

232 cases UK personnel continued to supply questions or intelligence to other services despite knowledge or suspicion of mistreatment

198 cases where UK personnel received intelligence from liaison services which had been obtained from detainees who knew they had been mistreated

28 cases, the agencies either suggested, planned or agreed to rendition operations proposed by others

22 cases, MI6 or MI5 provided intelligence to enable a rendition operation to take place

23 cases they failed to take action to prevent rendition.

38 cases in 2002 alone where the UK was aware of reports of mistreatment by the US but chose not to take them seriously

P(arliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee Reports - June 2018)


Public Enquiry, I say.
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Re: Britain's shame over torture and rendition after 9/11

Postby Fletch » Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:34 pm

Shemful. Didn't David Milliband get in to some bother over this?

And Labour supporters claimed he would be the ideal candidate to lead Labour!

Complicity in torture: the case against the United Kingdom
The Senate report into the CIA has been heavily redacted at Britain's request. So what have we got to hide? Plenty, reports Robert Verkaik

But recent history has shown that when it comes to torture admissions, they have be dragged from officials and politicians and are only ever made in the face of irrefutable evidence.

In March 2007, Tony Blair told the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) that the US had given ‘firm assurances’ that Diego Garcia, a British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean loaned to America, had not been used to hold or transport terror suspects.

Less than a year later, foreign secretary David Miliband was forced to make a humiliating admission that Diego Garcia had in fact been used for the refuelling of two rendition flights in 2002.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 22063.html

And yet people believe Russia was behind the Skripal case. The chap who had links to the dodgy dossier on Trump creators...
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Re: Britain's shame over torture and rendition after 9/11

Postby Fletch » Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:36 pm

Extraordinary rendition: just how much did David Miliband know?

The Guardian reported in 2005 on rendition flights dating back from 2001, over 240 of them to be precise, that flew in and out of British airspace and airports. In December 2003, I raised the possibility that prisoners were being held illegally on Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, in the Independent. These claims were denied by another former minister, Baroness Amos – who is shortly to take over as undersecretary general of humanitarian affairs at the United Nations – but were finally admitted to be true by David Miliband to parliament in 2008. Clive Stafford Smith and his team at Reprieve have relentlessly sought to expose Britain's involvement – so strenuously denied – in what have been quite despicable acts.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... d-miliband
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Re: Britain's shame over torture and rendition after 9/11

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