Listening to: BBC Radio 1-derland

The two links below are to documents released by Craig Murray the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan (he was removed from the post). They highlight British and US support of a regime that tortures people:

• http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/telegrams.pdf
• http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/npaper.jpg

From the Blair Watch Project:

What are these documents?
The first document is a series of Telegrams that Craig sent to the Foreign Office, outlining his growing concern and disgust at our use of intelligence passed to the UK by the Uzbek security services.

The second document is a copy of legal advice the Foreign Office sought, to see if they were operating within the Law in accepting torture intelligence, and according to Michael Wood the FCO legal adviser; it is fine, as long as it is not used as evidence.

Faced with this heavy handed censorship by the FCO, in an attempt to cover up our use of and complicity in torture, Craig has decided to fight back, and has asked us all to publish this information, so it cannot be suppressed.

In the last episode of Mythbusters they tested the Chinese water torture. Even in a highly controlled environment where the experiment could be stopped within seconds it still did Kari’s head in… it was very disturbing to watch. I can only imagine how awful it would be in real life.

src: Crooks and Liars

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