More Torture Memos

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http://www.blairwatch.co.uk/node/716

More Torture Memos
Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray is defying a gag-order and publishing torture memos on his blog relating to the coordination between the Uzbek, British, and American governments. As Kos says, it's brutal :

Last year the US gave half a billion dollars in aid to Uzbekistan, about a quarter of it military aid.

Bush and Powell repeatedly hail Karimov as a friend and ally. Yet this regime has at least seven thousand prisoners of conscience; it is a one party state without freedom of speech, without freedom of media, without freedom of movement, without freedom of assembly, without freedom of religion. It practices, systematically, the most hideous tortures on thousands. Most of the population live in conditions precisely analogous with medieval serfdom.

Uzbekistan's geo-strategic position is crucial. It has half the population of the whole of Central Asia. It alone borders all the other states in a region which is important to future Western oil and gas supplies. It is the regional military power. That is why the US is here, and here to stay.

Contractors at the US military bases are extending the design life of the buildings from ten to twenty five years.

http://www.thetalentshow.org/archives/002244.html

http://www.blairwatch.co.uk/node/716