Repression disguised as fighting terrorism

Craig Murray in the UK breaks an important story

Citing the “Prevention of Terrorism” act, British Police have arrested and interrogated three of the stars of the award-winning film “The Road to Guantanamo”, together with the three ex-Guantanomo detainees on whose story the film is based.

“The Road to Guantanamo” traces the true story of [...]

Brit ‘book burning’

The British Government is trying to stop Craig Murray from printing his book.

He’s doing it anyway.

Support him.

Murray is the fromer British ambassador to Uzbekistan who resigned in protest of the US/British policy of sending prisoners there to be tortured.

BlairWatch has more

“Book Burning: Craig Murray to defy Foreign Office Threats, and [...]

Murder in Samarkand

Craig Murray’s new book is available for pre-order on Amazon UK.

Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador’s Controversial Defiance of a Tyrannical Regime Within the War on Terror

From the Amazon synopsis.

Craig Murray was the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing appalling human [...]

Torture flights

What No 10 knew and tried to cover up

Leaked memo reveals strategy to deny knowledge of detention centres

The government is secretly trying to stifle attempts by MPs to find out what it knows about CIA "torture flights" and privately admits that people captured by British forces could have been sent illegally to interrogation [...]

Will they be teaching advanced torture?

India to train Uzbek army with British "observers" present

This is from Craig Murray, who knows quite a lot about Uzbekistan. He was the former British Ambassador to that country who was forced out of his job for protesting the US/British policy of sending prisoners there to be tortured for information (immersion in boiling water [...]

Official Secrets Act has no teeth

The Official Secrets Act in Britain, it appears, is mostly bluff. The recent re-posting by 4,000 bloggers of documents from Craig Murray may have rendered this noxious act impotent. Good.

Whitehall unconfidential: the censors are on the run

There is an unamusing aspect to the shambles into which censorship efforts have degenerated. A cabinet [...]

On the death of the Official Secrets Act

Craig Murray on the torture telegrams The torture telegrams were featured on over 4,000 blogs worldwide within 72 hours.

The government has been caught using material from the World’s most hideous torture chambers. Jack Straw and Tony Blair have been caught lying about the fact that they do this. And they have been shown to [...]

Her Majesty’s Secret Service?

From Craig Murray. He’s the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan who resigned and made public his memos to higher-ups decrying US and Britian shipping prisoners to Uzbekistan to be tortured for information.

Click "Uzbekistan torture" in the Categories box in the left column or or in the Category sub-heading for this post for all our [...]

Enron and Uzbekistan

Blair Watch continues their uncovering the US/British complicity with torture in Uzbekistan with some background info including a memo from then-CEO of Enron Ken Lay to George Bush detailing how Enron is setting up a 2 billion dollar deal there. Hey, as long as the OilCos get more business, then who cares if the host [...]

The Murray Documents

Blair Watch broke the story about US/British complicity in torture in Uzbekistan by publishing documents from former Ambassador to that nation, Craig Murray. They printed these documents at considerable legal risk to themselves too.

Craig Murray’s site and Blair Watch are Ground Zero here. Go to their sites for the latest in this fast-breaking [...]