Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan

[Andre II]

Source: Sunday Herald

"THE CIA SENT ITS agents into Uzbekistan torture chambers to observe the abuse of alleged Islamic terrorists, acc-ording to a dissident member of the Uzbek security services who is now seeking political asylum in the UK after fleeing Tashkent.

Ikrom Yakubov, a former major in the National Security Service, accused the CIA of involvement in torture sessions in the central Asian republic in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Herald, during which he made a series of startling claims. These include claims that: l Britain's Richard Conroy, the UN's co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, was assassinated on the orders of Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan. Karimov has been described as one of the world's worst dictators and his rule, since 1991, has been characterised by allegations of torture (including claims that victims were boiled alive), media control, fake elections and brutality against human rights organisations and pro-democracy activists; l a series of bomb attacks in the capital, Tashkent, in March 2004 were organised by the SNB in order to tighten Karimov's dictatorial rule and ramp up the threat from Islamic terror groups; l Karimov ordered the notorious Andijan massacre in May 2005, when Uzbek security forces fired on protesters, killing anything up to 1500 people; l Karimov's regime routinely framed innocent Muslims on charges of involvement in Islamist terror and invented bogus terror threats to maintain his grip on the country, and l the CIA used a secret detention facility in Uzbekistan where suspects in the "war on terror" were taken from around the world to be tortured by SNB interrogators.

Yakubov fled Uzbekistan and sought asylum in the UK this month. Craig Murray, Britain's former ambassador to Uzbekistan and a harsh critic of the Karimov regime, has vouched for Yakubov's bona-fides, claiming he is confident of his background as an intelligence officer and that he finds Yakubov's story believable."

Read more: http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2446134.0.intelligence_officer_claims_cia_was_complicit_in_torture_in_uzbekistan.php

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You should also check out Craig Murray's blog. he was UK-ambassador in Uzbekistan and tried to stop this. result^He got sacked.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2008/09/evidence_of_kar.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. The world has known for ages Islam Karimov boils his political prisoners alive.

_{George W. Bush} has known it throughout his association with him. What an evil stain on the reputation of the U.S. to have a pResident who has taken this primitive troll under his wing.

From the article you linked:

Yakubov's most powerful claim relates to a meeting in 2002 with an American official whom Yakubov's chief in the SNB described as a CIA agent.

"The man introduced himself to me as Andrew," said Yakubov. "We drove some 15 kilometres from Tashkent to the town of Chirchik, where the SNB has a secret detention centre located underground. We entered the jail and there was an SNB officer torturing a man. Andrew and I watched for about 10 minutes. We were both present while this man was being beaten around the neck with a stick.

"The victim had been captured by the Americans in Afghanistan and taken to Uzbekistan for interrogation by the SNB. He was supposed to be an Islamist. Andrew then went into the administration room and came out 20 minutes later with a bag full of papers."

Yakubov said the American did not protest or urge the torturer to stop beating the prisoner. Instead, Yakubov said, Andrew told sexual jokes and taught him to swear in English. "He certainly did not appear upset by what he witnessed," Yakubov said.

[leftchick]

2. silly rabbit!

it is GREAT as long as he is OUR dictator! :spank:

:(