Former UK Ambassador: CIA sent people to be 'raped with broken bottles'

[sixmile]

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/ambassador-cia-people-tortured/

'The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.

Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.

"I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles," he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. "I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I'm talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on."

Human rights groups have long been raising the alarm about the legal system in Uzbekistan. In 2007, Human Rights Watch declared that torture is "endemic" to the country's justice system.'

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[FiveGoodMen]

1. Our president says they were just following orders.

Nothing to see here...

[dflprincess]

6. And it was all in the past

we need to move on.
:sarcasm:

and

:mad:

[arcadian]

2. Craig Murray is awesome.

I don't know how so few people on the inside like him didn't come forward with what was going on. I guess there are a lot of amoral people in the world.

[sixmile]

3. Good people stay on the job too long

It seems the truth only comes out when they retire.

[JohnyCanuck]

10. Amoral or maybe just too worried about losing careers, pensions etc. n/t

[derby378]

4. I think the UK killed a similar investigation into renditioning and Uzbekistan

Some government worker got too close to something really sensitive, so the British government fired him.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[Echo In Light]

7. Evil Empire

[DearAbby]

8. .

:wow:

[Bucky]

9. Of course we can expect Lindsey Graham & McCain to insist only unbroken bottles be used.

Cause they're always taking the moral high ground on issues like this.

[Supersedeas]

11. wonder what Condi knew?

[rudy23]

12. It's Obama's torture now---unless he prosecutes.

Until then, he's endorsing that behavior, and enabling it in the future.

[arthritisR_US]

14. you are dead on, IMO! n/t

[Pavulon]

13. truthers birthers and pipers.. Pipeline. Morons one and all

saw that stopped reading. Of course there is NOTHING in the article that even comes close to proving the claims. I am sure the massive pipe in Afghanistan is moving right along.

[leftstreet]

15. K&R

[flyarm]

16. heck many of us were posting about this years ago..I posted it so often i had nightmares about it!

look it up in the archives here.