Britain Sends Information on Suspect to the U.S.

Source: NYT

By RAYMOND BONNER
Published: June 21, 2008

LONDON — The government of Britain has turned over classified material to American military prosecutors at Guantánamo Bay about a British prisoner’s allegations that he was interrogated and tortured in Morocco after secretly being taken there by the C.I.A., according to the British Foreign Office ...

The Foreign Office told the lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, that it could not reveal the contents of the classified material, but that the American prosecutors had an obligation to turn it over to the defense before any trial ...

Mr. <Binyam> Mohamed has said that while in Morocco, the torture included being cut on his chest and genitals with a razor. Mr. Stafford Smith has said that photographs were taken of Mr. Mohamed’s injuries by American military personnel.

On Wednesday, Representative Bill Delahunt, Democrat of Massachusetts, wrote to the Pentagon requesting the photographs ...

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/world/europe/21gitmo.html

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Welcome to 'the disco'

For US interrogators seeking to disorientate and break Iraqi prisoners it's 'torture lite' - rock music played at excruciating volumes. But while the song choices may sometimes verge on the unintentionally funny, this appropriation of music by the military is anything but a joke

... Binyam Mohamed, the British resident who is still held in Guantánamo Bay, knows a bit about such torture ...

When I later sat across from him in the cell, he described how psyops methods were worse than this. He could anticipate physical pain, he said, and know that it would eventually end. But the experience of slipping into madness as a result of torture by music was something quite different.

"Imagine you are given a choice," he said. "Lose your sight or lose your mind." While having your eyes gouged out would be horrendous, there is little doubt which you would choose. Mohamed remains in Guantánamo. The US military will decide, probably within two weeks, whether to go forward with a military commission, based on "evidence" that was tortured out of him ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/19/usa.guantanamo?commentpage=1

Britain turns over documents on torture claims
LONDON: Britain has turned over classified material to U.S. military prosecutors at Guantánamo Bay about a British prisoner's allegations that he was interrogated and tortured in Morocco after secretly being taken there by the CIA, according to the British Foreign Office.

The prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, was charged by U.S. military prosecutors last month with conspiracy and material support for terrorism, and the Foreign Office said in a letter to his lawyer that the evidence it gave to the Pentagon could be "exculpatory and relevant."

In the letter, which has not been made public, the Foreign Office acknowledged that it had previously denied - to the defendant's lawyers and to a parliamentary committee - having had any information pertaining to Mohamed.

The Foreign Office told the lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, that it could not reveal the contents of the classified material, but that the U.S. prosecutors had an obligation to turn it over to the defense before any trial.

more:http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/21/europe/britain.php