Lloyds owns stake in US firm accused over CIA torture flights

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Lloyds owns stake in US firm accused over CIA torture flights

Banking group, which has £8.5m slice of CSC, is under pressure
along with other City investors from human rights charity

Rupert Neate
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 May 2012 19.18 BST

Lloyds Banking Group has become embroiled in a row over its investment in a company accused of involvement in the rendition of terror suspects on behalf of the CIA.

Lloyds, which is just under 40% owned by the taxpayer, is one of a number of leading City institutions under fire for investing in US giant Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which is accused of helping to organise covert US government flights of terror suspects to Guantánamo Bay and other clandestine "black sites" around the world.

Reprieve, the legal human rights charity run by the British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, alleges that during the flights, suspects – some of whom were later proved innocent – were "stripped, dressed in a diaper and tracksuit, goggles and earphones, and had their hands and feet shackled". Once delivered to the clandestine locations, they were subjected to beatings and sleep deprivation and forced into stress positions, a report from the International Committee of the Red Cross says.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/06/lloyds-computer-sciences-corporation-cia-rendition

[Octafish]

1. There's lots of money to be made off war.

From The City and across the pond to Wall Street, no punters allowed at the trough. I mean, "table."

Thank you for the heads-up on Lloyd's and Reprieve, Eugene. The warmongering fascists are in the open now. It's most heartening to see more and more responsible people standing up to them.

[idwiyo]

2. It's Different When It's Your Own money. As long as it pays well...

Doubt very much anyone really gives a shit as long as they get a good %% on their investments.
Everyone knows that money has no smell.