Thursday, August 28, 2008

US Threatens UK On Gitmo Case. Think you'll hear about this in the mainstream media?

(Sometimes, believe it or not, I look beyond the dome and see things that cannot go unacknowledged.)In a remarkable development at the High Court in London, an email from a senior US State Dept. official has been revealed, apparently threatening to curb co-operation with Britain on international intelligence sharing if details on a detainees interrogation are revealed. Lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, held at Gitmo, have taken legal action in the UK to force the release of details which, they say, will prove Mohamed was ilegally abducted and tortured into a confession. Mohamed claims that his torture included having his penis cut with a razor blade by Moroccan proxies for the US. (cont.)

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