Interesting how recently attacked countries, like UK, change their tune when threatened.
...A senior officer close to the London investigation said: âWe obviously need to know what threat remains and we are asking all our international allies for help even if the standards of their interrogation methods are not as scrupulous as our own. Needs must, I fear.â
Amnesty says that Britain should not be using intelligence obtained from these ghost prisoners. Mike Blakemore, its UK media director, said: âThe UK authorities must do their utmost to prevent any repeat of the July 7 bombings and to bring those responsible to justice, but agreeing to the extraction of information from people held in secret and illegal detention is a step too far.
No, the UK should ignore intelligence that could save lives.
âIllegal detention is the slippery slope to torture and it is vital that the London bombings investigation does not make use of âtorture evidenceâ.
âSince September 11, 2001, we have repeatedly raised our concern with the US authorities that âghost detaineesâ are being held in secret detention centres around the world. These âsecret Guantanamosâ should be opened up and prisoners either properly charged or released.â
Human Rights First has compiled a dossier on 24 of these secret centres and reveals how the CIA is operating its own airline to shift terror suspects across the world.
President Bush says he doesnât know where these prisoners are being held but insists that lives have been saved, including many in Britain, because of information obtained from al-Qaeda figures in custody....
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