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Pressure continued to mount yesterday for the British government to come clean over its role in the CIA rendition and torture programme.
Former security minister Admiral Lord West has admitted there may have been the “odd case” where British agents were aware of torture occurring.
He said torture was “abhorrent” and was not used by the British because “we have to be whiter than white” in the battle against international terrorists.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Nigeria’s presidential spokesman grovels to the West in response to Washington intimidation, writes PAVAN KULKARNI