That thing about British people having a superior “sense of fair play” took a bit of a hammering this weekend
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Evidence has emerged that MI5 and MI6 have been involved in the torture of suspected Islamic terrorists.
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Secret documents sent by the CIA to the Libyan government were found in an abandoned office building in Tripoli.
The documents indicate that the British Intelligence agencies worked alongside their friends in Libya and the US to fly a man named Abu Munthir from Hong Kong to the Libyan capital.
The suggestion is that the British government knew there was a strong chance Munthir would be tortured once he’d arrived there.
The Guardian are reporting that ‘Abu Munthir’ was a nom de guerre the man used while living in Britain and encouraging British Muslims to bomb an unspecified target in the South East of England.
Apparently we also helped the US arrange torture sessions for various other terror suspects in Libya in the decade that has passed since the Twin Towers collapsed in 2001.
Previously there had been no hard evidence that we had gone beyond a silent complicity with US torture techniques.
Abdul Hakim Belhaj, commander of the anti-Gaddafi militia currently attempting to negotiate with regime loyalists in Tripoli, is another man who in the past was sent over to the city to be tortured.
He is considering suing the governments in London and Washington as pro-Gaddafi forces dwindle and recede, and Gaddafi himself continues to play truant somewhere in North Africa.
Some other stuff happened this weekend. Wanna find out what it was? Go to page two.
Drugs confuse government men
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New, bad replicas of illegal drugs are now emerging so often that the government wouldn’t be able to ban them all even if they stayed up for three weeks on a soul-destroying mephedrone binge.
Apparently 20 new legal highs appeared in the first four months of the year alone, most of them synthetic analogues of cocaine, amphetamines or ecstasy.
Look at this guy. What a dick!
The British media is still pretending that anyone here gives a shit about athletics
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Gotta keep up that Olympics hype.
Racists still not enjoying living in London
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So they got drunk and called tourists “scum”.
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