Britain to investigate possible MI5 role in torture

[L. Coyote]

Britain to investigate possible MI5 role in torture
Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:25pm EDT
By Luke Baker - http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLQ596652


LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - Britain is to investigate whether members of its secret services were complicit in the torture of a British resident released from Guantanamo Bay last month after nearly seven years in detention.

Attorney General Patricia Scotland said that after studying evidence for four months, some of it highly sensitive, she had decided there were sufficient grounds to launch a criminal investigation into allegations made by Binyam Mohamed.

"I have concluded that the appropriate course of action is to invite the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to commence an investigation into the allegations that have been made in relation to Binyam Mohamed," she said in a statement.

Mohamed, an Ethiopian citizen who moved to Britain as a teenager and has British residency, was detained in Pakistan in April 2002 .........

[ShortnFiery]

1. I smell white wash. If they could openly shoot and kill a Brazilian man that they took for Mid-

Easterner, then methinks "all law enforcement" agencies function to cover each other's asses. :shrug:

[EFerrari]

2. This is excellent news!

:kick:

[L. Coyote]

3. especially considering how the US is not YET (admitting) doing the same.

Nonetheless, there are indications that the legal process is underway in the US.

[EFerrari]

4. If the UK investigates, we will have to. And I would be surprised

if the Obama administration hasn't already had this discussion with the Prime Minister in some form?