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Hillary Clinton warned British Foreign Secretary David Miliband that if the British court releases the information it has uncovered about a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, who alleges torture at the hands of the CIA, the US may stop sharing intelligence information with Britain.
Several British newspapers have covered the story, including the Telegraph and the Daily Mail. Not surprisingly, mainstream American media has ignored it.
Democracy Now, however, interviewed David Davis, a Conservative MP in the British House of Commons, earlier in the year about the court case involved. He said, in part:
We have in Britain at the moment a court case underway about torture. It’s one of, we think, fifteen cases of really serious torture. We’re not talking waterboarding here. We’re talking scalpels and beatings and cutting people in unpleasant places. That case is beginning to show complicity in that torture on the part of British intelligence agencies.
At the heart of the matter is Binyam Mohamed. Davis continues:
My concern is what happened before he went to Guantanamo. And, I mean, he went—he was sent to Morocco, and he was tortured with scalpels. He had his penis cut with scalpels, other parts of himself cut with scalpels. He was tortured by the Pakistanis. As I said, it’s not just waterboarding we’re talking about here. This is really brutal, almost medieval torture.
Read the rest of the transcript here.
If these allegations are true, and the United States government is trying to cover them up, we are no better than the worst terrorist.
Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness,but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. (Ephesians 5:11-12)
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