Tony Blair, He Had His Penis Cut Up

Richard Norton-Taylor reports in the Guardian:

MI5 participated in the unlawful interrogation of a British resident now held in Guantánamo Bay, the high court found yesterday in a judgment raising serious questions about the conduct of Britain's security and intelligence agencies.

One MI5 officer was so concerned about incriminating himself that he initially declined to answer questions from the judges even in private, the judgment reveals. Though the judges say "no adverse conclusions" should be drawn by the MI5 officer's plea against self-incrimination, they disclose that the officer, Witness B, was questioned about alleged war crimes under the international criminal court act, including torture. The full evidence surrounding Witness B's evidence, and the judges' findings, remain secret.

The MI5 officer interrogated the British resident, Binyam Mohamed, while he was being held in Pakistan in 2002. Mohamed, 30, an Ethiopian national, was later secretly rendered to Morocco, where he says was tortured by having his penis cut with a razor blade. The US subsequently flew him to Afghanistan and he was transferred to Guantánamo Bay in September 2004 where he remains.

Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve wasa quoted in the article with saying "[t]he British government may have been accused of being Bush's poodle, but the British courts remain bulldogs when it comes to human rights."  It is time Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair was prosecuted for the calumnies he visited on Britain in the years after 9/11. He betrayed the nation.