Torture? What Torture?
It's Not the al Jazeera Memo
But It's Not Bad!
BlairWatch asks, we publish! Here are a couple documents The Poodle doesn't want you to read. Of course we don't torture! (says Tony).
Background:
The UK government has been quick to deny that we practice, or tolerate the practice of Torture. So it is perhaps not suprising that they are determined that you should not see the following documents:
http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/telegrams.pdf
http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/npaper.jpg
Craig Murray was the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, until his complaints and protest at the use of intelligence gained by torture got too much for Jack Straw and the Foreign Office, who set about attempting to unsuccessfully smear him, and to successfully remove him from office.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3750370.stm
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2005/04/timeline_of_cra.html
The Foreign Office has had the draft of Craig's book for clearance for over 3 months now, and they are doing everything they can to try and prevent him from publishing his side of the story. Their latest attempt to cover their own backs was to inform him, the night before Christmas Eve, that these two documents cannot be published, and that he was to return or destroy all copies immediately.
Read more here.
tags: tony blair craig murray al jazeera memo torture uzbekistan
The Brits may have not invented torture, but they sure as hell perfected it. How do you think we Americans learned our skills?
Posted by: comandante agi | December 29, 2005 at 10:19 AM
Poodle turned out to be a biter, eh? Well. Not too surprised.
Posted by: HelenWheels | December 29, 2005 at 10:28 AM
The Brits may torture, but I suspect they are excruciatingly polite about it.
Posted by: Thesaurus Rex | December 29, 2005 at 12:17 PM
Makes one Wonder what did indeed happen to Dr.Kelly during the Iraq Hearings of July 11th 2003, and he was found propped against a tree a day after he disappeared and his last email was to Judy Miller- he dissappeared that afteroon...July 17th ( I think..I would have to recheck the date, over on http://plamegatetimeline.blogspot.com/)..but it raises some interesting questions about his "death"....Prayers to Craig Murray and may he be safe...well it appears that we are not the only ones with shame and blood on our hands...
Posted by: enigma4ever | December 30, 2005 at 12:03 AM
Have you seen the letter from Ken Lay to his friend George? I posted a link yesterday. I was sure it was bogus, until I read further.
You just can't make this stuff up!
Posted by: KathyF | January 01, 2006 at 05:51 AM