Binyam Mohamed back in UK today says UK intelligence directed torture

Can't wait to hear how UK foreign secretary Miliband tries to explain this one.

From the Guardian

Binyam Mohamed, a former UK resident who is flying home after four years of incarceration at Guantánamo Bay, today accused Britain of involvement in his alleged torture.

"I have to say, more in sadness than in anger, that many have been complicit in my own horrors over the past seven years," he said in a statement his lawyers released shortly before the chartered plane bringing him back from the US detention camp in Cuba was due to land at RAF Northolt, near London.

"For myself, the very worst moment came when I realised in Morocco that the people who were torturing me were receiving questions and materials from British intelligence," he said.

"I have met with British intelligence in Pakistan. I had been open with them. Yet the very people who I had hoped would come to my rescue I later realised had allied themselves with my abusers.

"I am not asking for vengeance, only that the truth should be made known so that nobody in the future should have to endure what I have endured."

Again from the Guardian - His Moroccan experience included the torturers lascerateing his testicles

The full horror of Gitmo inmate's beatings
During medical examinations last week, doctors discovered injuries and ailments resulting from apparently brutal treatment in detention.

Mohamed was found to be suffering from bruising, organ damage, stomach complaints, malnutrition, sores to feet and hands, severe damage to ligaments as well as profound emotional and psychological problems which have been exacerbated by the refusal of Guantánamo's guards to give him counselling.

Comment from FORMER GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE, MOAZZAM BEGG

I think it's important to recognise that, not just Binyam, but also the former Guantanamo detainees who were British citizens have a case against the British government for the illegal detention and complicity in that for false imprisonment, and for the torture that took place of British citizens with the knowledge of the British intelligence services so as I say, watch this space. This case will become bigger as more is brought to light.

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