Further British Involvement in US Rendition Programme Comes to Light
by Craig Murray
CBS reported last week on allegations that U.S. authorities held terrorist suspects on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia as part of a secret prisons network.
Diego Garcia, an island of great apparent beauty, is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. What goes on there is the business of Westminster.
The UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select committee have
received a report from the charity Reprieve that details the
involvement of the British territory and British officials in illegal
CIA activities. Assurances received from the US government about these
activities have received little credence from British MPs. Andrew
Tyrie, a conservative who has led investigations looking at other
British involvements said:
"These assurances come from the
same government that invented the rendition program, authorized the use
of techniques that all in the civilized world would call torture, and
continues to hold hundreds in the moral and legal black hole of
Guantanamo Bay."
Meanwhile, in Italy the trial of CIA agents accused of kidnap continues in absentia.
And,
Stephen Grey, author of Ghost Plane, has published an excellent article
on rendition as experienced by refugees following the recent US
military intervention in Somalia.
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