The recent decision of the UK High Court to release a seven paragraph summary of the torture perpetrated by U.S. agents upon Binyam Mohammed in April and early May 2002 is welcome news. The summary, written by a British court, was derived from 42 classified CIA documents delivered to the British legal authorities as part of an investigation into the actions of MI5 in the torture and interrogation of Binyam Mohamed and other prisoners held by Pakistan. These documents purportedly describe the torture of Mohamed, and indicate the collusion of U.S., British, and Pakistani authorities in the torture.

[Welcome H.P. Albarelli, Jr, and Host Jeff Kaye.] [As a courtesy to our guests, please keep comments to the book.  Please take other conversations to a previous thread. - bev] A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments Of all the ghosts that haunt U.S. history, few have [...]