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guilty of war crimes and subservient to the bush regime i include below the full text of his statement and urge others to copy and paste the text as well this statement was prepared and read by ben griffin ex sas soldier at a press conference on monday 25 february 2008 our government would have us believe that our involvement in the process known as extraordinary rendition is limited to two occasions on which planes carrying detainees landed to refuel on the british indian ocean territory diego garcia david miliband has stated that the british government expects the government of the united states to seek permission to render detainees via uk territory and airspace including overseas territories that we will grant that permission only if we are satisfied that the rendition would accord with uk law and our international obligations and how we understand our obligations under the un convention against torture¹ taken from a statement given to the house of commons by the foreign secretary david miliband on thursday 21 february 2008 the use of british territory and airspace pales into insignificance in light of the fact that it has been british soldiers detaining the victims of extraordinary rendition in the first place since the invasion of afghanistan in the autumn of 2001 uksf has operated within a joint us uk task force this task force has been responsible for the detention of hundreds if not thousands of individuals in afghanistan and iraq individuals detained by british soldiers within this task force have ended up in guantanamo bay detention camp bagram theatre internment facility balad special forces base camp nama biap and abu ghraib prison whilst the government has stated its desire that the guantanamo bay detention camp be closed it has remained silent over these other secretive prisons in iraq and afghanistan these secretive prisons are part of a global network in which individuals face torture and are held indefinately without charge all of this is in direct contravention of the geneva conventions international law and the un convention against torture early involvement of uksf in the process of extraordinary rendition centres around operations carried out in afghanistan in late 2001 of note is an incident at the qalai janghi fortress near mazar i sharif uksf fought alongside their us counterparts to put down a bloody revolt by captured taliban fighters the surviving taliban fighters were then rendered to guantanamo bay after the invasion of iraq in 2003 this joint us uk task force appeared its primary mission was to kill or capture high value targets individuals detained by this task force often included non combatants caught up in the search for high value targets the use of secret detention centres within iraq has negated the need to use guantanamo bay whilst allowing similar practice to go unnoticed i have here an account taken from an interpreter interviewed by the organisation human rights watch http hrw org reports 2006 us0706 2 htm he was based at the detention and interrogation facility within camp nama at baghdad international airport during 2004 this facility was used to interrogate individuals captured by the joint us uk task force in it are the details of numerous breaches of the geneva convention and accounts of torture these breaches were not the actions of rogue elements the abuse was systematic and sanctioned through the chain of command this account is corroborated by an investigation carried out by nyt reporters into camp nama and the us uk task force which appeared in the new york times on march 19 2006 throughout my time in iraq i was in no doubt that individuals detained by uksf and handed over to our american colleagues would be tortured during my time as member of the us uk task force three soldiers recounted to me an incident in which they had witnessed the brutal interrogation of two detainees partial drowning and an electric cattle prod were used during this interrogation and this amounted to torture it was the widely held assumption that this would be the fate of any individuals handed over to our america colleagues my commanding officer at the time expressed his concern to the whole squadron that we were becoming the secret police of baghdad as uk soldiers within this task force a policy that we would detain individuals but not arrest them was continually enforced since it was commonly assumed by my colleagues that anyone we detained would subsequently be tortured this policy of detention and not arrest was regarded as a clumsy legal tool used to distance british soldiers from the whole process during the many operations conducted to apprehend high value targets numerous non combatants were detained and interrogated in direct contravention of the geneva convention regarding the treatment of civilians in occupied territories i have no doubt in my mind that non combatants i personally detained were handed over to the americans and subsequently tortured the joint us uk task force has broken international law contravened the geneva conventions and disregarded the un convention against torture british soldiers are intimately involved in the actions of this task force jack straw margaret beckett david miliband geoff hoon des browne tony blair gordon brown in their respective positions over the last five years they must know that british soldiers have been operating within this joint us uk task force they must have been briefed on the actions of this unit as the occupiers of iraq we have a duty to uphold the law to abide by the geneva conventions and the un convention against torture we are also responsible for securing the borders of iraq on all counts we have failed the british army once had a reputation for playing by the rules that reputation has been tarnished over the last seven years we have accepted illegality as the norm i have no doubt that over the coming months and years increasing amounts of information concerning the actions of british soldiers in iraq and afghanistan will be become public whilst the majority of british forces have been withdrawn from iraq uksf remain within the us uk task force ¹torture according to the united nations convention against torture is any act by which severe pain or suffering whether physical or mental is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession ben griffin 25 february 2008 www stopwar org uk posted in uncategorized tags american torture bush crime family censorship empire establishment media state terror the war on terror scam torture war criminals 6 comments rich thieving scum whine 28 february 2008 rickb london is losing its status as the world s leading financial centre and being overtaken by new york according to a global survey of finance professionals the collapse of northern rock and the proposed tax crackdown on non domiciled residents are making the uk less attractive to overseas businesses according to the city of london corporation which commissioned the survey a separate survey also commissioned by the city said the uk tax system had lost its competitive edge over other financial centres the uk had become increasingly unpredictable and uncertain complex and unnecessarily aggressive in its approach to taxpayers it found so basically a shot across the bows by kleptocrats unlimited also via mask of anarchy and see exxon using uk courts to attack venezuela we see tesco is weighing up suing the guardian over blowing its enron scams tesco is apparently considering suing the guardian newspaper over a story alleging widespread offshore tax avoidance by the grocer that ate middle england this could give rise to a little friction between the rest of the tesco board and one of its non executives in her day job carolyn mccall is chief executive of guardian media group posted in uncategorized tags capitalism church of the free market class war corporatism corruption oil organised crime thieves comments off on rich thieving scum whine gunboat diplomacy 28 february 2008 rickb signaling impatience with syria the united states has sent its uss cole warship off the coast of lebanon in a show of support amid beirut s political crisis u s officials said on thursday lebanon s western backed governing coalition and its syrian and iranian backed opposition have failed to reach a deal to end the country s political conflict a u s defense official said the cole left malta on tuesday and was headed toward lebanon adding it would not be within visible range of lebanon but well over the horizon the uss cole was attacked off the coast of yemen in october 2000 by al qaeda militants seventeen u s sailors were killed update another military officer speaking on condition of anonymity because full details about the ship movements are not yet public said a navy guided missile destroyer the uss cole was headed for patrol in the eastern mediterranean and that the uss nassau an amphibious warship would be joining it shortly the officer said a third ship would go later but he did not identify it by type or name posted in uncategorized tags empire lebanon militarism politics comments off on gunboat diplomacy royal tradition of killing poor foreigners continues 28 february 2008 rickb i know it will be used in the us as a stick to beat the feckless bush regime and the lack of any of them or their family serving but it s colonialism not heroism and anyway a royal family are we living in a shrek movie for fuck s sake posted in uncategorized tags afghanistan establishment imperialism media the war on terror scam 5 comments another journalist swallowed into the gulag 28 february 2008 rickb jawed ahmad a journalist for a canadian tv network who has been held for four months without being charged has been designated an unlawful enemy combatant the u s military said wednesday ahmad 22 who is also known as jojo yazemi was detained oct 26 at a nato air base in the southern city of kandahar according to the committee to protect journalists a new york based group he was later transferred to a detention center at the u s military base in bagram north of kabul ctv news continues to be deeply concerned about jojo yazemi s well being and we are continuing to work all diplomatic channels available to find out additional information and get jojo his due process robert hurst president of ctv news said in a statement pj which said tuesday that it received a letter from the pentagon on feb 22 about ahmad being held as an enemy combatant demanded that u s authorities disclose evidence and specify charges against him although the pentagon has made a very serious assertion it has yet to disclose any supporting evidence and despite holding jawed ahmad for four months authorities have yet to charge him with a crime said cpj executive director joel simon we urge military officials to either charge jawed ahmad with a recognizable criminal offense or if they have no intention of doing so to release him immediately one moment he was a human being with rights now he is an unlawful enemy combatant some mysterious undefined state of unbeing the empire uses to turn human beings into what exactly puppets for the rack gulag livestock what stops them from doing it to us posted in uncategorized tags empire human rights state censorship state terror the war on democracy comments off on another journalist swallowed into the gulag war criminal loses job 28 february 2008 rickb after this i said to him that if we come up short and there are some acquittals in our cases it will at least validate the process davis continued at which point haynes s eyes got wide and he said wait a minute we can t have acquittals if we ve been holding these guys for so long how can we explain letting them get off we can t have acquittals we ve got to have convictions scumbag war criminal haynes got the boot having thoroughly exposed the preconceived notion of guilt in the commissions which infects the whole of the administration s post 9 11 detention policies in the tribunals at guantánamo for example condemned by former insiders for being designed to rubberstamp the detainees designation as enemy combatants without testing the evidence col davis next trick was to declare the day after that he would appear as a defense witness for salim hamdan at his next pre trial hearing in april i expect to be called as a witness he explained adding i m more than happy to testify and describing his decision ominously for the administration as an opportunity to tell the truth the final blow to the commissions for now at least came yesterday when without even attempting to address col davis allegations the pentagon abruptly announced that william haynes was resigning as chief counsel to return to private life a spokeswoman said that he had discussed leaving the administration some months ago and had decided to accept an offer to work in the private sector i don t think because he was revealed to be an evil man but because his exposure revealed the evil of a lot of other criminals posted in uncategorized tags american torture bush crime family human rights scum state terror war criminals comments off on war criminal loses job us backed regime refusing to withdraw from occupied territories 27 february 2008 rickb i bet you thought i meant israel horn of africa neighbors ethiopia and eritrea insist they will not resume a war that killed an estimated 70 000 people but both have moved tens of thousands of troops to the border because of the dispute over the 620 mile 1 000 km frontier ethiopia has called for talks on border demarcation and normalization of relations before it will pull back from areas assigned to eritrea by the boundary commission but eritrea s u n ambassador araya desta ruled out any talks with addis ababa until ethiopia withdrew when the ethiopians have gone out of the sovereign territories of eritrea then the question of normalization will come later he told reuters in a telephone interview he also called on the security council to put pressure including possible sanctions on ethiopia to withdraw most of the u n peacekeepers on eritrea s border with ethiopia have moved to eritrea s capital asmara the peacekeepers have been stationed in a 15 5 mile 25 km buffer zone inside eritrea but asmara turned against the mission because of u n inability to enforce rulings by an independent commission awarding chunks of ethiopian held territory including the town of badme to eritrea the united nations ordered the force last week to start moving to asmara saying eritrea had cut off fuel and food supplies and prevented it moving to the ethiopian side of the border eritrea denied it had done so so standby for the reports of an eveeel eritrea housing terrorists and abusing the un looks like the long set up is coming to fruition for the empire posted in uncategorized tags empire eritrea media the war on terror scam comments off on us backed regime refusing to 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