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16th April 2014, 08:00
A "black prison" is even more circumstantial evidence of flight MH370 being diverted to DG...
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A human rights group is urging Britain�s Foreign office to �come clean� over claims that a British-administered island in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia, was used as a secret "black site" detention center by the CIA.
�We need to know immediately whether ministers misled parliament over CIA torture on British soil,� Cori Crider, strategic director at Reprieve, a legal action charity group, said in a letter to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague.
�If the CIA operated a black site on Diego Garcia, then a string of official statements, from both this and the last government, were totally false,� Crider said.
The letter followed a report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee that Britain had allowed the US to run a �black site� prison on Diego Garcia to secretly hold suspects without accountability. The Diego Garcia prison held some �high-value� detainees and was operated with the �full cooperation� of the British government, US officials familiar with the Senate report said.
�Were ministers asleep at the wheel? Or, as the report suggests, have we been lied to for years?� Crider wrote.
Reprieve is also representing Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, a rebel military commander and opponent of the late Libyan leader, Mohamed Gaddafi, who was arrested in Malaysia and rendered to Libya, allegedly via Diego Garcia, in a joint US-UK intelligence operation.
�The Foreign Secretary must urgently clarify whether the CIA ran a secret prison on Diego Garcia, and whether our clients Abdel-Hakim Belhaj and his wife Fatima Boudchar were among its victims,� Crider said.
Read more here http://rt.com/news/diego-garcia-uk-us-212/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHzRXePvn5Q
A human rights group is urging Britain�s Foreign office to �come clean� over claims that a British-administered island in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia, was used as a secret "black site" detention center by the CIA.
�We need to know immediately whether ministers misled parliament over CIA torture on British soil,� Cori Crider, strategic director at Reprieve, a legal action charity group, said in a letter to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague.
�If the CIA operated a black site on Diego Garcia, then a string of official statements, from both this and the last government, were totally false,� Crider said.
The letter followed a report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee that Britain had allowed the US to run a �black site� prison on Diego Garcia to secretly hold suspects without accountability. The Diego Garcia prison held some �high-value� detainees and was operated with the �full cooperation� of the British government, US officials familiar with the Senate report said.
�Were ministers asleep at the wheel? Or, as the report suggests, have we been lied to for years?� Crider wrote.
Reprieve is also representing Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, a rebel military commander and opponent of the late Libyan leader, Mohamed Gaddafi, who was arrested in Malaysia and rendered to Libya, allegedly via Diego Garcia, in a joint US-UK intelligence operation.
�The Foreign Secretary must urgently clarify whether the CIA ran a secret prison on Diego Garcia, and whether our clients Abdel-Hakim Belhaj and his wife Fatima Boudchar were among its victims,� Crider said.
Read more here http://rt.com/news/diego-garcia-uk-us-212/
http://rt.com/files/news/25/29/40/00/rtrd6f8_1.jpg