
Dangerous torture advocate and jumped-up little prick UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband
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A High Court has given the Foreign Office a week to defend its refusal to reveal evidence that a UK resident was tortured in Guantanamo.
Binyam Mohamed won a High Court ruling on Thursday that the government should disclose documents which could prove his innocence from the terror charges laid against him.
The Foreign Office called for an order banning the disclosure of the information although the court had said in the ruling that the evidence was ‘not only necessary but essential’ for Mohamed’s defense.
The court has given Foreign Secretary David Miliband until September 5 to reconsider its application for an order banning the disclosure of the evidence.
The Thursday ruling has shed new light on Britain’s secret cooperation with the US in the kidnap and torture of alleged terror suspects.

Mohamed says his confessions were obtained through torture.
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The charity organization Reprieve, which has represented Mohamed in Guantanamo, said the ruling was ‘a momentous decision’ which came despite ‘the strong US desire that this information not be disclosed’.
In an email read out in court, a legal adviser to the US State Department had said that any further disclosure of information would cause ‘serious and lasting damage’ to security relations between Washington and London.
Mohamed’s solicitor Richard Stein said that the judgment reflected “the abhorrence of decent society at the methods employed by the United States government in the supposed ‘war on terror’.”
The 30-year-old Mohamed, an Ethiopian who came to Britain as an asylum seeker in 1994, says the documents reveal that his charges are based on confessions obtained through torture and ill-treatment.
Mohamed was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and secretly moved to Morocco, where he says he was tortured during the 18 months he spent there.
He was then flown to an alleged CIA-run site in Afghanistan before being taken to Guantanamo Bay in 2004, where he has been awaiting trial.
AKM/DT
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