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    Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’ [and boiled alive] "The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador [Craig Murray]." I think more so than pawning him off, she wasn’t going to put the NSC onboard as giving the pro-toture policy position he wanted without making sure they had post-Abu Ghraib coverage on the legal front. Full Article at Emptywheel
    The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador [Craig Murray].
    SOURCE: Emptywheel 3 weeks ago
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    SOURCE: Emptywheel 3 weeks ago

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