Saturday, March 07, 2009
Underlying charge of complicity
Two members of the banned group Lashkar e Tayyiba, which has links to al-Qaeda, understood to be Pakistani nationals, apprehended by UK forces in Iraq had been transferred to US custody in 2004 then transported to Afghanistan. They are still being held in Afghanistan, where they are classified as "unlawful enemy combatants". Defence secretary John Hutton said there was no "substantiated evidence" that they had been mistreated or subjected to abuse there. "There is a underlying charge of complicity with serious abuse of people detained by British forces on operations overseas."
Labels: Afghanistan, flight, Iraq, John le Carré, Lashkar e Tayyiba, rendition
# posted by Gary @ 8:13 PM 
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