UK agents 'colluded with torture in Pakistan'
Is anyone really surprised ??????????????
A shocking new report alleges widespread complicity between British security agents and their Pakistani counterparts who have routinely engaged in the torture of suspects.
In the study, which will be published next month by the civil liberties group Human Rights Watch, at least 10 Britons are identified who have been allegedly tortured in Pakistan and subsequently questioned by UK intelligence officials. It warns that more British cases may surface and that the issue of Pakistani terrorism suspects interrogated by British agents is likely to "run much deeper".
The report will further embarrass the foreign secretary, David Miliband, who has repeatedly said the UK does not condone torture. He has been under fire for refusing to disclose US documents relating to the treatment of Guantánamo detainee and former British resident Binyam Mohamed. The documents are believed to contain evidence about the torture of Mohamed and British complicity in his maltreatment. Mohamed will return to Britain this week. Doctors who examined him in Guantánamo found evidence of prolonged physical and mental mistreatment.
Ali Dayan Hasan, who led the Pakistan-based inquiry, said sources within the country's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), the Intelligence Bureau and the military security services had provided "confirmation and information" relating to British collusion in the interrogation of terrorism suspects.
Hasan said the Human Rights Watch (HRW) evidence collated from Pakistan intelligence officials indicated a "systemic" modus operandi among British security services, involving a significant number of UK agents from MI5 rather than maverick elements. Different agents were deployed to interview different suspects, many of whom alleged that prior to interrogation by British officials they were tortured by Pakistani agents.
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Its kinda ironic really as we the west complain about people like saddam, kim yong making people 'dissapear' yet we aren't exactly angels either. I know the numbers are now-where near the same but still we are involved.
We all know that people get picked up in these countries, smuggled on planes, naval ships etc taking to places off the radar, have the $%1& beaten out of them. But we are not interested, people marched in UK to stop the war in iraq - didn't achieve anything.
by all secret services around the globe. Not a surprise, they could not believe at first, the perfect practise.
i think it embarasses the pakistani govt more than milliband or any other british representative. the question is who allows the american forces to invade the air and soil or british security agents to torture people in pak? i blame the pakistani govt... absolutely spineless.