CIA officers could face trial in Britain over torture allegations

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Source: The Independent

Attorney General to investigate abuse claims
Senior CIA officers could be put on trial in Britain after it emerged last night that the Attorney General is to investigate allegations that a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay was brutally tortured, after being arrested and questioned by American forces following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington in 2001.

The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has asked Baroness Scotland to consider bringing criminal proceedings against Americans allegedly responsible for the rendition and abuse of Binyam Mohamed, when he was held in prisons in Morocco and Afghanistan.

The development follows criticism of US prosecutors by British judges who have seen secret evidence of torture committed against Mr Mohamed, including allegations his torturers used a razor blade to repeatedly cut his penis. The Attorney's investigation is expected to include allegations that MI5 colluded in Mr Mohamed's rendition. Mr Mohamed, 30, an Ethiopian national and British resident, was arrested in Pakistan in 2002, when he was questioned by an MI5 officer.

On Tuesday, Government lawyers wrote to the judges hearing Mr Mohamed's case against the UK government in the High Court. In the letter they said "the question of possible criminal wrongdoing to which these proceedings has given rise has been referred by the Home Secretary to the Attorney general for consideration as an independent minister of justice". Baroness Scotland has been sent secret witness statements given to the court and public interest immunity certificates for the proceedings.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cia-officers-could-face-trial-in-britain-over-torture-allegations-980384.html

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Smith orders inquiry into MI5 and CIA torture claims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/30/uksecurity-terrorism

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1. recommend

[seemslikeadream]

2. Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands's Torture Team exposes the American CONSPIRACY to tear up the Geneva Convention




http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3431966

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3433352

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3425597

[LynnTheDem]

3. Good.

And then let's go for the real criminals; George W. bUsh. Cheney the dick. Condi "who could have known?" Rice. ...

[stillcool]

4. it's got to start somewhere...

[Demeter]

5. Those Who Sowed the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind

which will sweep them all into Gitmo or the Hague!

[Mabus]

6. There is a lump in my throat as I think about Bush & company being held accountable

K&R

[TankLV]

7. What is it with these bushies that they use sexual torture?

JUST LIKE THE NAZIS!

These are seriously sick fucks...

[Mabus]

8. Frightening, isn't it.

Saturday morning kick.