Intelligence from tortured Uzbeks attacked
By Stefan Wagstyl, Central and East Europe Editor
Published: October 11 2004 03:00
Craig Murray, ambassador to Uzbekistan, has protested over the government's use of intelligence information obtained under torture. Uzbek officials are torturing prisoners to extract information, which is supplied to the US and passed through its Central Intelligence Agency to the UK, says Mr Murray in a confidential Foreign Office report seen by the Financial Times. "Tortured dupes are forced to sign confessions showing what the Uzbek government wants the US and UK to believe - that they and we are fighting the same war against terror . . . This is morally, legally and practically wrong," he says. Mr Murray adds that the intelligence material is useless because it is designed by the Uzbek authorities to support their claim that they are a vital part of the global war on terror. The Uzbeks exaggerate the activity of local militants and their links with al-Qaeda. "We are selling our souls for dross."
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