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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.
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
US General Stanley McChrystal has been invited to advise on creating a ‘team of teams’ for healthcare transformation. His credentials? He previously ran interrogation bases where Iraqis were stripped naked and beaten, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion