Minister admits terror transfer

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Source: BBC News

Ministers have said they handed over two terror suspects to US authorities in Afghanistan, sparking claims of collusion in extraordinary rendition.

Defence secretary John Hutton said the two, detained by UK forces in Iraq in 2003, were transferred to US custody in Afghanistan in 2004 where they remain.

He was reassured they had been treated humanely but said the move should have been "questioned" at the time.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7912656.stm

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Admits lie more like it.

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1. ONLY two? K & R

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2. k & r

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3. How do you transfer "terror"? It is a feeling, not a disease.

This bizarre Orwellian Power of Nightmares shit is still going on.

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4. We did hand over terror suspects for rendition, Hutton admits

Defence Secretary sorry for misleading statements made by ministers
By Kim Sengupta

The British Government admitted for the first time yesterday that it had been involved in "extraordinary rendition". The Defence Secretary John Hutton disclosed that terror suspects handed over to the US in Iraq were flown out of the country for interrogation.

Contradicting previous insistences by the Government that it had no played no part in the controversial practice, John Hutton revealed that details of the cases were known by officials and detailed in documents sent to two cabinet members at the time – Home Secretary Charles Clarke and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

The prisoners, two men of Pakistani origin who were members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba group, which is said to be affiliated to al-Qa'ida, were captured by SAS troops serving near Baghdad in February 2004. They were handed over to US custody and flown to Afghanistan within the next few months. Among other inmates who passed through the prison was Binyam Mohammed, the UK citizen recently freed from Guantanamo Bay.

Mr Hutton apologised to the Commons "unreservedly" for misleading statements made by the Government in the past, adding "in retrospect, it is clear to me that the transfer to Afghanistan of these two individuals should have been questioned at the time" ... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/we-did-hand-over-terror-suspects-for-rendition-hutton-admits-1633397.html