Observer: MI6 and CIA 'sent student to Morocco to be tortured'

[Eugene]

MI6 and CIA 'sent student to Morocco to be tortured'

An Ethiopian claims that his confession to al-Qaeda
bomb plot was signed after beatings, reports David
Rose in New York

Sunday December 11, 2005
The Observer

An Ethiopian student who lived in London claims that he was brutally tortured with the involvement
of British and US intelligence agencies.

Binyam Mohammed, 27, says he spent nearly three years in the CIA's network of 'black sites'.
In Morocco he claims he underwent the strappado torture of being hung for hours from his wrists,
and scalpel cuts to his chest and penis and that a CIA officer was a regular interrogator.

<snip>

Western agencies believed that he was part of a plot to buy uranium in Asia, bring it to the US
and build a 'dirty bomb' in league with Jose Padilla, a US citizen. Mohammed signed a confession but
told his lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, he had never met Padilla, or anyone in al-Qaeda. Padilla spent
almost four years in American custody, accused of the plot. Last month, after allegations of the
torture used against Mohammed emerged, the claims against Padilla were dropped. He now faces a civil
charge of supporting al-Qaeda financially.

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Full article: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1664612,00.html

[acmavm]

1. This is what happens when you put a bunch of screaming incompetents

in charge. Can't find their asses with both hands and a road map but think they got this 'terra-ist' thing all figured out.

Knew beforehand that we could, and probably would, be hit by al Quaeda via airplane. Ignored all the warnings, just let it happen. And I do believe that was intentional. Intentional as hell. How else could they get their war? But now, now that the let the genii out of the bottle, they have absolutely no clue how to deal with the mess they have on their hands so they're flailing out grabbing any and everyone that they 'think' looks suspicious. And they use torture, the most unreliable method of interrogation known to mankind, to obtain their info.

What a bunch of screaming asshole idiot bastards.

[David Dunham]

2. The US officials responsible for this should get life in prison.