British Complicity in Rendition and Torture Pre-dates 9/11

[kpete]

Source: After Downing Street

British Complicity in Rendition and Torture Pre-dates 9/11
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2009-04-05 11:12. Europe Torture
CAGEPRISONERS

A new report by Cageprisoners into the involvement of British authorities in torture and rendition details alarming findings that are too recurrent to ignore. Today Cageprisoners publishes, Fabricating Terrorism II: British Complicity in Renditions and Torture, which highlights 29 cases of individuals who have been subjected to renditions or torture with recurrent allegations of the direct involvement of the British officials even before 9/11.

Strongly reminiscent of the case of former Guantanamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, the report details the experiences of Farid Hilali, who, years prior to the 'War on Terror' in 1998, was first tortured in Dubai, UAE and then rendered to Morocco where he was further abused – all with the knowledge and collusion of British intelligence officials.

Spokesman for Cageprisoners, Moazzam Begg, said of the report,

“In the summer of 1998 I was visited by MI5 in my house in England. They told me it was regarding the case of man called Farid Hilali. Hilali had written to me from Dubai, telling me he had been detained there and horribly tortured and forced to sign confessions. He also asked me to find him a lawyer. That is how I first met Gareth Pierce. Three years later, I was abducted by the CIA in Pakistan and subsequently held and tortured in secret locations, Kandahar, Bagram and Guantanamo Bay. MI5 agents interrogated me at every leg of my ordeal – including one who had come to my house in 1998. I hope that the police investigation into Mr. Mohamed’s case will finally demonstrate just how many of us suffered like this and, in my case, a result of my own government’s policies. That is why we have taken them to court.”


Read more: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/41419

[mulsh]

1. brits have a long history of hiding and denying toture

just take a good look at their adventures in India, Ireland, and Africa. They tend to rationalize their torture tactics by claiming it's a response to natives violence and claim they simply don't do it.

[CANDO]

2. The Clinton adm. was doing rendition.

According to my right wing brother. It would be worth a google. I haven't yet.

[L. Coyote]

3. "The people know it is the Police doing these things"

That quote by a local was in reference to atrocities in another country, but the quote has universal fit.
Police have been torturing people for as long as there have been police.

In the case of the quote above, the complaint was they execute political opponents.
Torture by the police is far better than a bullet to the brain, but torture has killed too.

Because torture is crime authorities commit, this is always a difficult arena for obtaining justice.
Fear of recrimination is reasonable from those whose actions if revealed threaten criminal prosecution.
Those in control of the system abuse power to protect themselves from the system.

[KakistocracyHater]

4. torture can destroy the Human personality

as well as the will to live. That is its' sole purpose, too; my opinion but......