It made the news! Uzbekistan torture story is on Comcast.net HOMEPAGE!

Ex-Envoy: U.K. Received Info Via Torture
By SUE LEEMAN, Associated Press Writer
4 hours ago

LONDON - A former British ambassador has published government documents he says prove that Britain knowingly received intelligence extracted under torture from prisoners in Uzbekistan.

Craig Murray, who was removed as ambassador to Uzbekistan after going public about his concerns, defied a Foreign Office ban to publish the internal memos on his Web site Friday. The documents include memos to Foreign Office chiefs in which Murray expressed his concern over the use of "torture material."

In one memo, Murray said he was told by Foreign Office legal adviser Sir Michael Wood that it was not illegal to use information acquired by torture, except in legal proceedings. Intelligence officer Matthew Kydd had also told him the intelligence services sometimes found such material "very useful indeed, with a direct bearing on the war on terror," he said.

Murray said that even after he alerted his bosses to his concerns, they continued to use material allegedly gained under torture "on the grounds that the UK could not prove that individual detainees were tortured to extract information."<snip> more at link...


http://www.comcast.net/news/international/europe/index.jsp?cat=EUROPE&fn=/2005/12/31/294344.html

Ex-Envoy Says Britain Used Coerced Intel
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051231/ap_on_re_eu/britain_torture_claims;_

2 months!;)

It is great to see this hitting the mainstream!

:hi:

Uzbekistan has put more than 6,000 political prisoners in squalid jails where dozens of people have reportedly died of torture over the past several years, according to rights groups.

They were our allies in the War on Terror™




Keith’s Barbeque Central

i saw it when it first came onto du..and i thought holy shit!!!!!!!

then i clicked on the documents here section and got totally booted off aol...so i knew this was "hot"...

so i got hold of a couple people and we got to work getting it to as many blogs as possible...
Understadninglife went to work fast as well and he got it over to kos and bradblog and many others...

its amazing what power we have to be our own news!!

fly

It's THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE! The propaganda networks are too busy on the murder trial du jour. It's sickening what they have become. We are the news now.....until the fascists take over the internet(s).:scared: I pray I never see that day.