{"id":199419,"date":"2007-07-31T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/31\/the-us-tortured-british-agent-for-4-years\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T10:22:00","slug":"the-us-tortured-british-agent-for-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/31\/the-us-tortured-british-agent-for-4-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Tortured British Agent for 4 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,,2137144,00.html\">a major source for MI5 was rendered, and tortured by the CIA in one of their gulags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>An Iraqi who was a key source of intelligence for MI5 has given the first ever full insider&#8217;s account of being seized by the CIA and bundled on to an illegal &#8216;torture flight&#8217; under the programme known as extraordinary rendition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the items of significance is just how much MI5 were the poodles of the CIA.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A report by Parliament&#8217;s intelligence and security committee last week disclosed that, although the Americans warned MI5 it planned to render al-Rawi in advance, in breach of international law, the British did not intervene on the grounds he did not have a UK passport. The government claimed he was the responsibility of Iraq, which he fled as a teenager when his father was tortured by Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This had to come from 10 Downings street.  Once again, Blair is Bush&#8217;s poodle.<\/p>\n<p>Disgraceful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that a major source for MI5 was rendered, and tortured by the CIA in one of their gulags. An Iraqi who was a key source of intelligence for MI5 has given the first ever full insider&#8217;s account of being seized by the CIA and bundled on to an illegal &#8216;torture flight&#8217; under &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}