telegraph.co.uk - 2/9/2009
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The Government suppressed evidence on the torture of terror suspect Binyam Mohamed because the documents reveal that MI6 helped his interrogators.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 2/9/2009
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
The Obama administration will continue the cover-up of
the alleged torture of the British resident. The argument...
is that revealing the extent of the man's torture and abuse would reveal state secrets. No shit. This is a depressing sign that the Obama ...
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The Binyam Mohamed Case
guardian.co.uk - 2/11/2009
aclu.org - 2/4/2009
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aclu.org —
NEW YORK – In July of 2002, Ethiopian
native Binyam Mohamed was taken from Pakistan to Morocco...
on a Gulfstream V aircraft registered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as N379P. Flight and logistical support services for this aircraft were ...
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Gitmo Detainee’s ‘Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel,’ Waterboarding ‘Far Down The List Of Things They Did’
Think Progress —
... But The Daily Telegraph reported over the weekend that the documents actually “contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied information to [Mohamed’s] captors and contributed questions while he was brutally tortured.” In fact, it was British officials, not the Americans, who pressured Foreign Secretary David Miliband “to do nothing that would leave serving MI6 officers open to prosecution.” According to the Telegraph’s sources, the documents describe particularly ...
Sliced his Genitals with a Scalpel? Waterboaring was the Least of it
Firedoglake —
Think Progress has found a London Daily Telegraph article that will make your blood run cold. Remember last week the British High Court ruled that documents describing the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident and prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, could not be released to the public because the Bush Administration had threatened to stop sharing intelligence with England ?
Story not true. ...
Did We Mutilate Prisoners?
Booman Tribune —
... is why. But The Daily Telegraph reported over the weekend that the documents actually contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied information to [Mohameds] captors and contributed questions while he was brutally tortured. In fact, it was British officials, not the Americans, who pressured Foreign Secretary David Miliband to do nothing that would leave serving MI6 officers open to prosecution. According to the Telegraphs sources, the documents describe particularly ...
Paper reports Scapel Used on Tortured Gitmo Detainee
TalkLeft —
Via Think Progress, the Independent reports on the details of Binyam Mohamed's torture and the lines left out of the report: The 25 lines edited out of the court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed's genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, "is very far down the list of things they did," the official said. Another source familiar with the case said: "British intelligence officers knew about the ...
Pentagon Officials Censor Letter To Obama Detailing Gitmo Detainee’s Rendition And Torture
Think Progress —
... releasing documents describing torture techniques used against Mohamed while in U.S. custody, reportedly because the documents also prove British collaboration in his torture. ...
Reports of Obama's Ending the War on Terror Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Weekly Standard Blog —
... . It's a policy that leads to actual torture, and in all likelihood it will be relied upon more and more as the Obama administration affords legal protections to terrorists who operate outside the laws of war. Rather than outsource torture to these unreliable and undemocratic regimes in the Middle East, the Obama administration may soon come to see even the most controversial interrogation techniques of the Bush administration for the humane alternatives they really are. ...
Do the torture photos Obama is covering up include genitals being sliced by a scalpel?
Corrente —
Jeebus:
According to the Telegraph’s sources, the documents describe particularly gruesome interrogation tactics:
The 25 lines edited out of the court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed’s genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, “is very far down the list of things they did,” the official said. Read more…
Democratic Accountability: A Tale of Two Countries
The Moderate Voice —
... The High Court’s original ruling in Mohamed’s favor contained seven paragraphs which described the torture to which Mohamed was subjected. It has been previously reported that those paragraphs contain descriptions of abuse so brutal that not even our own American media could dispute that it constitutes “torture”: ...
It Will Come Out In The End
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Greenwald follows the latest twist in the Binyam Mohamed case, where the British High Court has ordered the full details of Mohamed's torture released. What we may soon find out: ...
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Did The U.S. Threaten Britain Over Torture?
politics.theatlantic.com 2/5/2009 — Judges in the United Kingdom are investigating whether a Brit named Binyam Mohamed was tortured by U.S. interrogators over a period of three years ending in 2005. Sadly, that sentence isn't the remarkable one. What comes next is pretty shocking, if ...
You Be the Judge
vanityfair.com 2/7/2009 — When is a threat not a threat? Was there any threat at all? A recent British High Court ruling in the case of Binyam Mohamed has caused a firestorm in Britain over these and other questions, and brought the subject of U.S.-British ...
Military Lawyer: Gitmo Conditions Have Worsened Since Inauguration
talkleft.com 2/9/2009 — Lieutenant-Colonel Yvonne Bradley, an American military lawyer for 20 years, is in Great Britain where tomorrow she will demand the release of Binyam Mohamed who as we wrote the other day, is dying in his Guantanamo cell. Bradley...will reveal ...
Marjorie Cohn: A Call to End All Renditions —
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
By Marjorie Cohn Jurist
Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and all terrorism charges against him were dismissed last year. Mohamed ...
The Binyam Mohamed Case —
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
It may well be - to put the best face on it - that the Obama administration's decision to back up the Bush administration's claim of "state secrets" with respect to the alleged US-coordinated torture of Binyam Mohamed is a holding action. Holder has said he'll review all state ...
Major Disappointment from Obama DOJ —
Booman Tribune
The only thing I disagree with Glenn Greenwald about is the idea that the Obama administration's decision to continue exerting the state's secret privilege in the Binyam Mohamed case is aimed at covering up for Bush and Cheney's crimes. I think it is fairly straightforward that the aim is to ...
Obama Continues Bush Policy On State Secrets —
Firedoglake
Earlier this morning, Looseheadprop wrote about the case of Binyam Mohamed , the British subject tortured at the hands of the United States at Gitmo, including having his genitals carved selectively with a scalpel. The Mohamed case is of critical significance for a variety of reasons, not the ...
Fraternity Pranks —
Suburban Guerrilla
Send all of them to the Hague - the people who ordered this , I mean:
Last week, two British High Court judges ruled against releasing documents describing the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. The judges said the Bush ...
It Could Have Been You —
Suburban Guerrilla
Or me, or anyone else we know:
A British ‘resident’ held at Guantanamo Bay was identified as a terrorist after confessing he had visited a ‘joke’ website on how to build a nuclear weapon , it was revealed last night.
Binyam Mohamed, a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read the ...
A Pakistan Connection? —
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
The US's heavy hand against disclosure of evidence that might prove that Binyam Mohamed, a British resident Gitmo prisoner, was tortured under US and perhaps British supervision is stirring up a huge row in Britain. And the explanations for the secrecy get curiouser and curiouser: Perhaps it ...
NSN Daily Update 2/5/09 —
democracyarsenal.org
See today's complete daily update, "New Leadership Needed on Intelligence," here . What We’re Reading A British High Court ruled that documents pertaining to Binyam Mohamed, a British resident being held at Guantanamo alleging torture, were to be kept secret . In their ...
A Question Of Torture —
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
This was bound to happen at some point:
The allegations relate to Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held in Guantanamo, who alleges he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan.
Mr Davis said a High Court ruling, which pointed to complicity by the UK and US authorities in his ...
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