tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048559001654820158.post2208059318947844229..comments2023-10-21T01:41:25.251-07:00Comments on Invictus: Under Oath, MI5 Officer Reveals Official British Torture ProgramValtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427976389098964420noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048559001654820158.post-34136580924470640262009-02-20T15:25:00.000-08:002009-02-20T15:25:00.000-08:00It now appears possible that Binyam Mohamed will b...It now <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/19/AR2009021903028.html?hpid=topnews" REL="nofollow">appears</A> possible that Binyam Mohamed will be returned to Britain as early as Monday, Feb. 23rd.<BR/><BR/>Will this end Mohamed's suit for these documents -- that is, since he will no longer be defending himself in a military court case, they become unnecessary?<BR/><BR/>Bizarre side effect of an otherwise happy event, if so.Nellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01969732734453586544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048559001654820158.post-64845844599240758642009-02-18T15:47:00.000-08:002009-02-18T15:47:00.000-08:00We need these people to go to jail. I mean, right ...We need these people to go to jail. I mean, right up to Blair. And Milliband's career seriously needs to be over, at the very least.<BR/><BR/>It makes you feel sick to the stomach that these people claim to be our representatives, so that we are complicit too. We torture. That's a grim truth about us.Dr Zenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14447633362204112316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048559001654820158.post-62959018411730657492009-02-17T13:48:00.000-08:002009-02-17T13:48:00.000-08:00Thanks very much for this, Valtin -- a very fine s...Thanks very much for this, Valtin -- a very fine summary of where things have got in London, and how connected we all are by the torture regime and what it has done to so many national governments.<BR/><BR/>Of the (at least) eight cases we know of where Canadian intelligence and foreign affairs officers played some role in interrogations performed by a second or third country, one is very like Binyam Mohamed's in that the detained man, Abdullah Khadr (an older brother of Omar), appears to have been picked up in Pakistan by the ISI at the behest of "an American intelligence agency." (See the wiki article.) He was held and interrogated in Pakistan for over a year, with input from both U.S. and Canadian agencies; we know these things because a memo describing the "bounty" offered for him by the U.S. was accidentally released in Canada, then suppressed, and then released again on a judge's order. He was returned to Canada after a year's detention but faces an extradition request from the U.S., an arrangement that seems to be the result of collusion between Canada and the U.S. <BR/><BR/>I'm watching the UK High Court judges with interest and gratitude, given that their strong statements about Miliband's equivocations may help to stiffen a few spines over here as well. <BR/><BR/>Thank you for all you do.skdadlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10395908653129465704noreply@blogger.com