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The parliamentary committee tasked with monitoring the intelligence and security services has issued a call for evidence on Britain’s treatment of terror suspects during the so-called War on Terror.
The intelligence and security committee (ISC) launched an inquiry into the handling of detainees following the publication in December of the interim report of the aborted Gibson inquiry into allegations of British complicity in torture.
That inquiry, pledged by David Cameron in 2010, was scrapped in 2012 but its interim report suggested that British intelligence officers had been told they could turn a blind eye to breaches of the Geneva Conventions by CIA agents interrogating suspects in Afghanistan in 2002.
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
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
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