From London daily The Morning Star:
Blair guilt confirmed
(Thursday 08 June 2006)
WHEN first taxed about CIA so-called “rendition flights” to and from Britain, Tony Blair and since ousted foreign secretary Jack Straw pleaded ignorance.
It was clear then, and is even clearer now, that, according to even the most charitable interpretation, their ignorance was carefully contrived on the basis of not asking questions because they suspected what the answers were.
Given the close master-servant relationship that exists between Downing Street and the White House, it is probably safe to assume that Mr Blair was fully up to speed over the CIA kidnapping and torture programme.
Seeing the government’s cavalier disregard for long-cherished human rights in this country, imagining a similar contempt for the rights of people designated as terrorists by Washington is not difficult.
The Prime Minister remains as brazen as ever in his refusal to be bound by domestic or international law, as he showed in his dismissal of Menzies Campbell‘s questions in Parliament.
On the Dick Marty report: here.
Actions in Britain against torture flights: here.
Ireland and torture flights: here.
Other side of Blair and planes: Tony is accused of using flights on British Airways to excess.
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*Detainees in Europe*
by Tim Grieve
Salon.com
June 7, 2006
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Read this WITH LINKS to SOURCES at:
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/06/07/vegas/index.html
“A new report from the Council of Europe” at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/world/07cnd-rendition.html?hp&ex=1149739200&en=a0085b0e6c9c5720&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
UK ‘part of CIA terror flights web’ 08 Jun 2006 First Minister Jack McConnell
came under renewed pressure last night to explain Scotland’s role in the alleged
rendition of prisoners by the CIA after Europe’s human rights watchdog claimed
Britain was part of a “spider’s web” of abuse. [See: Where the prisoners go.]
Europeans ‘assisted CIA renditions’ 07 Jun 2006 European countries – including
Germany, the UK, Italy and Sweden – violated human rights by co-operating with
CIA renditions, or extra-legal abductions, a wide-ranging report said on
Wednesday.
Force-feeding put in Guantánamo Bay policy 07 Jun 2006 In an overall defense of
its Guantánamo medical policies, the Pentagon on Tuesday made public a 10-page
directive that defends force-feeding hunger strikers and permits a psychologist
to advise interrogators.
Military Alters the Makeup of Interrogation Advisers 07 Jun 2006 Pentagon
officials said Tuesday that they would try to use only psychologists, and not
psychiatrists, to help interrogators devise strategies to get information from
detainees at places like Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The new policy follows by little
more than two weeks an overwhelming vote by the American Psychiatric Association
discouraging its members from participating in those efforts.
The Case of the Missing $21 Billion –Who’s Following the Iraq Money? By Dave
Lindorff 07 Jun 2006 “…[M]ore than $9 billion that has gone missing without a
trace in Iraq–as well as $12 billion in cash that the Pentagon flew into Iraq
straight from Federal Reserve vaults via military transports, and for which
there has been little or no accounting… What the president [Dictator Bush] did
was write a so-called ‘signing statement’ on the side (unpublicized of course),
saying that the new inspector general would have no authority to investigate any
contracts or corruption issues involving the Pentagon.”
US troops accused of new murders in Iraq 06 Jun 2006 US troops faced fresh
accusations of unlawful killings of civilians in Iraq as Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki ordered the release of 2,500 detainees in a gesture to promote
national reconciliation. The Iraqi Islamic Party accused American forces of
murdering more than two dozen Iraqis in a series of incidents across the country
in May.
Official: Marines Believed to Plan Killing 06 Jun 2006 U.S. military
investigators believe the killing of an Iraqi civilian on April 26 was planned
by a small group of Marines who shot the man and then planted a shovel and an
AK-47 rifle at the scene, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday.
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