Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

[kpete]

Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

By Daniel Tencer
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 -- 3:31 pm

Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be raped with broken bottlesThe CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.

Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.

"I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles," he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. "I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I'm talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on."



more:
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/ambassador-cia-people-tortu...

[mike_c]

1. there is no political chess game that can justify failing to investigate...

...claims like this and bringing those responsible to justice. This isn't nuanced discomfort. This is naked brutality. There won't be any debate about whether rape with broken bottles or being boiled alive is torture or just fraternal hijinks. With these sorts of claims being made, the U.S. MUST convene a war crimes tribunal.

[Arctic Dave]

2. But he's "our" tyrant. Just like Saddam was.

If you think we are actually over in the ME because we give a rats behind about the people you are seriously deluding yourself.

Building schools. Bah.

[polly7]

3. I wish each and every warmonger involved in this horror could

be sent to a torture bootcamp, experiencing every single thing they imposed on the kidnapped innocents they deemed unhuman enough to treat worse than any animal. If there's any justice if not in this life, then, the next. Sick, filthy, and disgusting.

[KansDem]

4. Just what good is the CIA anyway?

We have sixteen national intelligence agencies:

Air Force Intelligence
Army Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Coast Guard Intelligence
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Drug Enforcement Administration
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Marine Corps Intelligence
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Agency
Navy Intelligence

Couldn't we do without the CIA? It seems like it has become just a torture/assassination squad for American corporate communists.

It can't find Osama, but it can torture by raping women and sodomizing children? And now sexual assault with broken bottles? Who the hell are they, anyway?

[sattahipdeep]

5. Cofer Black

Why a "Gang of Seven" Former CIA Directors Are Trying to Block Holder's Torture Investigation

http://www.alternet.org/rights/142765/why_a_%22gang_of_... /



Like Kids in a Candy Shop

[malaise]

6. Every time I think revelations can't get worse

I see new reports like this one. Someone has to go to prison for these war crimes. This is beyond the Shock Doctrine.

sp