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High Court to investigate Iraq torture allegations

Iraqis who claim that hundreds of British soldiers were directly involved in widespread torture and abuse have won the first round in their legal battle to force the Government to open a public inquiry.

Judges sitting in the High Court in London yesterday ruled there was an arguable case that the alleged ill-treatment was systemic, and not just carried out at the whim of individual soldiers. The cases before the court include allegations of sexual abuse, mock executions, electric shocks, beatings and, in one case, murder.

Yesterday The Independent revealed the first allegation of water torture and evidence of collusion between British and American military units operating in southern Iraq.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 28678.html

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Uncovered: Britain's secret rendition programme

Until now, this country has been guilty only by association in the illegal transfer of prisoners. But the covert rendition of a Moroccan man by MI5 agents suggests that the practice was central to Britain's 'war on terror'

MI5 was directly involved in the rendition of a Moroccan national, illegally taken from a Belgian prison to work for Britain's Security Services in London, an investigation by The Independent has discovered.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 33450.html

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Wikileaks Afghanistan: civilian death details could 'poison' relations

William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said he hoped the relationship between British and Afghan forces would not be "poisoned" by leaked details of civilians and Afghan soldiers killed by British forces since 2006.

The documents published by the Wikileaks website include reports of at least 26 Afghan civilians – including 16 children – killed by British forces, as well as friendly fire incidents which claimed the lives of Afghan security personnel.

Mr Hague would not be drawn on whether the leak could increase the dangers for British troops in Afghanistan, and tried to downplay the documents' significance.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... tions.html

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Britain is harboring and abetting war criminals…


UK court blocks extradition of ex-Bosnian leader

UK court blocks attempt to extradite ex-Bosnian vice president for war crimes

A British judge has thwarted an attempt to force former Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic to stand trial for war crimes in Serbia, blasting Belgrade's attempt to extradite him as abusive and politically motivated.

Ganic was alleged to have taken part in war crimes in the opening days of the bloody struggle, when Bosnia's president had been captured and its capital was under siege. Serbian prosecutors say that Ganic, appointed acting president of Bosnia on May 2, 1992, personally commanded a series of attacks on illegal targets across the city, including an officers' club, a military hospital and what the Serbs describe as a medical convoy making its way out of town.

http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/07/27/uk-c ... -leader-4/

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Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted

Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like his mentor Peter Mandelson. Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes. Blair’s will appear next month and earn him £4.6 million. Now consider Britain’s Proceeds of Crime Act. Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenseless country, which the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the "paramount war crime." This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the Rwandan genocide.

In addition, four million Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes and a majority of children have descended into malnutrition and trauma. Cancer rates near the cities of Fallujah, Najaf, and Basra (the latter "liberated" by the British) are now revealed as higher than those at Hiroshima. "UK forces used about 1.9 metric tons of depleted uranium ammunition in the Iraq war in 2003," the Defense Secretary Liam Fox told parliament on 22 July. A range of toxic "anti-personnel" weapons, such as cluster bombs, was employed by British and American forces.

http://original.antiwar.com/pilger/2010 ... rosecuted/

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Special forces under investigation for abuse of Iraqi prisoners

Britain's special forces are at the centre of a criminal investigation following allegations soldiers from a covert unit tortured and abused suspected insurgents in Iraq.

Hundreds of members of the SAS, military interrogators and agent handlers who served with Task Force Black, a counter terrorist organisation that operated in Iraq during the insurgency, are to be questioned as part of a major inquiry into alleged breaches of the Geneva Convention.

The investigation is examining claims that British soldiers used death threats, intimidation and physical violence, as well as sleep, food and water deprivation to obtain intelligence from suspects.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... oners.html

[Omer Seyhan]

Special forces under investigation for abuse of Iraqi prisoners

Britain's special forces are at the centre of a criminal investigation following allegations soldiers from a covert unit tortured and abused suspected insurgents in Iraq.

Hundreds of members of the SAS, military interrogators and agent handlers who served with Task Force Black, a counter terrorist organisation that operated in Iraq during the insurgency, are to be questioned as part of a major inquiry into alleged breaches of the Geneva Convention.

The investigation is examining claims that British soldiers used death threats, intimidation and physical violence, as well as sleep, food and water deprivation to obtain intelligence from suspects.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... oners.html

That is generally how information is extracted. Did you want them to be nice to their prisoners until they confess?

Don't ever be in charge of Cypriot National Security for God sake....

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UK police charged with beating terrorism suspect

LONDON (Reuters) – Four British riot squad officers have been charged with beating up a Briton now awaiting extradition to the United States to face terrorism charges when they arrested him, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Babar Ahmad, a 36-year-old computer expert, was detained in a dawn raid on his home in southwest London in December 2003.

"Mr Ahmad suffered a number of injuries during that arrest, including heavy bruising to the head, neck, wrists and feet," said Simon Clements, head of the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime Division.

"Our conclusion is that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to charge four of the officers involved in the arrest of Mr Ahmad with causing actual bodily harm to him."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100812/ts_ ... rity_ahmad

[shahmaran]

How long ago was it when they shot a guy in the head 8 times, in public, who was just a Brazilian rushing somewhere and had nothing to do with this so called "terrorism"...

British committing war crimes is reoccurring historical news, they just do a much "cleaner" job compared to the other imperial exploiters.

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Iraq war was illegal, repeats Clegg

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today restated his view that the Iraq War was illegal, saying: "I don't think the legality of that invasion has been proven."

Mr Clegg stressed it was his personal opinion and said the Government did not have a view on the legality of the war.

Apart from questions over the legality of the conflict, Mr Clegg said the wisdom of the 2003 invasion "certainly hasn't been proven at all".

Mr Clegg voiced his strong opposition to the war last month as he stood in at the Commons despatch box for David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 56991.html