Have you read Cobain’s article in today’s Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008....uksecurity1)? Just imagine! Officers of our Security Service, MI5, were not only turning a blind eye to the torture of our citizens, who have been detained in Pakistan as terrorist suspects. MI-5 agents have actually colluded in their brutal torture by the hands of agents of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI)! Moreover, the Guardian is aware of claims by a number of British citizens, who have been arrested in Pakistan at the request of UK authorities and were tortured by ISI agents in the presence of MI5 officers! How maddening!
Even if these detainees have really been involved in some terrorist plots or had some links with terrorists, why was no attempt was made to extradite them to be questioned by police officers in this country? And why did they receive no assistance from our British consular officials in Pakistan? To all seeming Gordon Brown and his team has forgotten the main principles of a democratic state, whose government must protest human rights and freedoms of all own citizens, no matter where they are! Even terrorist suspects have the human rights, if only they’ve not turned out to be somewhere in Guantanamo Bay and fallen into the hands of notorious Yankees! But now it finds out that there is no difference between the technique of human rights’ violation of terrorist suspects in the USA and the UK. Both of them are engaged in the illegal detention and torture of own citizens, who are taken by their agents to some secret interrogation centers, located far from homeland, where these poor victims can be freely tortured before being questioned by their “democratic and philanthroping” torturers. Observation of own democratic laws is not necessarily in far Pakistan or Iraq, isn’t it? Moreover, for long their special services “receive special training about possible mistreatment of detainees held by foreign intelligence agencies”. But up to this day this has affected all people except own citizens (UK Criminal Justice Act 1988). Now we all are involved in this terror!