Thursday, December 29, 2005

Calling all bloggers - preserve the evidence

Blairwatch is asking for international solidarity on a new set of leaked documents from the UK proving Britian and the US are complicit in tortue in Uzbekistan.
Craig Murray was the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, untill his complaints and protest at the use of intelligence gained by torture got too much for Jack Straw and the Foreign Office, who set about attempting to unsuccessfully smear him, and to successfully remove him from office.

The Foreign Office has had the draft of Craig's book for clearance for over 3 months now, and they are doing everything they can to try and prevent him from publishing his side of the story. Their latest attempt to cover their own backs was to inform him, the night before Christmas Eve, that these two documents cannot be published, and that he was to return or destroy all copies immediately.
Murray was outraged and published the materials on his blog. The blog, when I tried to check it is already down but Blairwatch has archived the documents and is asking bloggers to also archive or at least link to the materials.
What are these documents?

The first document is a series of Telegrams that Craig sent to the Foreign Office, outlining his growing concern and disgust at our use of intelligence passed to the UK by the Uzbek security services.

The second document is a copy of legal advice the Foreign Office sought, to see if they were operating within the Law in accepting torture intelligence, and according to Michael Wood the FCO legal adviser; it is fine, as long as it is not used as evidence.
The documents are here and here. Please publish these if you can, and/or link and pass it on.
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