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 Foreign Secretary David Miliband |
LONDON – Officers for Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency could face prosecution for their role in the interrogation of a 30-year-old Ethiopian, Binyam Mohamed, who previously was granted refugee status here, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Mohamed was arrested in 2002 in Pakistan on suspicion of involvement in terrorism and transported to Morocco before being sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2004.
The role of the MI6 officers surfaced in a High Court hearing when two judges said they wanted to release the contents of a CIA file on his treatment.
However, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband argued before the court that the disclosure of seven paragraphs could jeopardize MI6’s relationship with U.S. intelligence.
Miliband made it clear the document “revealed that intelligence from British agents was used by the Americans and that the information enabled the Americans to put British questions while Binyam Mohamed was being tortured.”
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Last year all terrorism charges against Mohamed were dropped while he was still in Guantanamo.
His lawyer, Clive Stafford-Smith, now has asked the High Court to allow the 25 redacted lines in the case papers to be published. It would pave the way for the MI6 officers to be prosecuted, which would confirm, for the first time, the extent of the role MI6 played in the “torture” of suspected terrorists.
A senior intelligence officer who was in court during the hearing has said the document contains information about how, while in custody in Morocco, “Mr. Mohamed’s [body was] were sliced with a scalpel. The file features other torture methods so extreme that the controversial technique of waterboarding, simulated drowning, is far down the list.”
He added: “There is no doubt that MI6 officers knew about the torture and did nothing about it. They supplied information to the Americans and the Moroccans, who did the actual torture. But those MI6 officers provided the means, photographs, that enabled the torture to be carried out.”
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