A depressing saga of secrets, lies and medieval horrors

The US and the UK can claim ignorance of what goes on in those dark cells pierced by screams; and obliging nations can do their business efficiently in countries without any transparency. There is a long history of such mutuality in evil. Apartheid had willing black operators; the transatlantic slave trade depended on black suppliers. These colluders always get away with it.

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by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 23, 2009

Alibhai-Brown reports the release of Binyam Mohamed, and decries the dark arrangements by which the U.S. and the U.K. use proxies to practice torture, contrary to the Geneva Convention.

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