World-News

Jailed torture victim says he was offered cash to drop collusion claim.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/06/mi5-accused-bribe-offer-torture


From Information Clearing House

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MP claims UK “outsourced torture”

BBC News [UK]

07/08/09

An MP has used parliamentary privilege to accuse the British intelligence service of ‘outsourcing torture.’ Former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis cited the case of Rangzieb Ahmed, from Rochdale, who was jailed for life for being an al-Qaeda planner. Mr Davis told the House of Commons that intelligence services had allowed Ahmed to go to Pakistan. Once there, they alerted Pakistani authorities who arrested him and tortured him, parliament was told. Mr Davis is calling for a judicial inquiry into at least 15 cases where torture of terrorist suspects has been alleged...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8139622.stm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Revealed: The Secret Torture Evidence MI5 Tried to Suppress

Ian Cobain, The Guardian UK: "The true depth of British involvement in the torture of terrorism suspects overseas and the manner in which that complicity is concealed behind a cloak of courtroom secrecy was laid bare last night when David Davis MP detailed the way in which one counter-terrorism operation led directly to a man suffering brutal mistreatment."

http://www.truthout.org/070809L?n



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