{"id":422,"date":"2006-08-15T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2012-01-28T01:09:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T01:09:42","slug":"ex-ambassadeur-over-liquid-terror-be-sceptical-be-very-very-sceptical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/2006\/08\/15\/ex-ambassadeur-over-liquid-terror-be-sceptical-be-very-very-sceptical\/","title":{"rendered":">Ex-ambassadeur over liquid terror: Be sceptical. Be very, very sceptical…"},"content":{"rendered":"

>\"\"<\/a>Voormalig Brits ambassadeur in Uzbekistan, <\/span><\/span>Craig Murray<\/a>, werd door zijn baas, minister van Buitenlandse Zaken <\/span>Jack Straw<\/a>, uit zijn functie ontheven, nadat hij mensenrechtenschendingen in de Uzbeekse “<\/span>war on terror<\/a>” aan de kaak stelde.<\/p>\n

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Om informatie te vergaren over terrorisme werden verdachten stelselmatig gemarteld. Zie deze aflevering van Netwerk <\/a>voor achtergronden over dit onderwerp.<\/p>\n

Op zijn eigen weblog<\/a> uit Murray (rechts op de foto), zoals veel meer kritische geesten, zijn twijfels over de w\u00e8rkelijke toedracht van de arrestaties in de transatlantische “liquid-terror<\/a>“-zaak, waarover de afgelopen week zoveel ophef was in de media en de politiek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Het begint als volgt:<\/p>\n

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The UK Terror plot: what’s really going on?<\/h3>\n

I have been reading very carefully through all the Sunday newspapers to try and analyse the truth from all the scores of pages claiming to detail the so-called bomb plot. Unlike the great herd of so-called security experts doing the media analysis, I have the advantage of having had the very highest security clearances myself, having done a huge amount of professional intelligence analysis, and having been inside the spin machine.<\/p>\n

So this, I believe, is the true story.<\/p>\n

None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn’t be a plane bomber for quite some time.<\/p>\n

In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases passports, it could be pretty difficult to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt that individuals intended to go through with suicide bombings, whatever rash stuff they may have bragged in internet chat rooms.<\/p>\n

What is more, many of those arrested had been under surveillance for over a year – like thousands of other British Muslims. And not just Muslims. Like me. Nothing from that surveillance had indicated the need for early arrests.<\/p>\n

Then an interrogation in Pakistan revealed the details of this amazing plot to blow up multiple planes – which, rather extraordinarily, had not turned up in a year of surveillance. Of course, the interrogators of the Pakistani dictator have their ways of making people sing like canaries. As I witnessed in Uzbekistan, you can get the most extraordinary information this way. Trouble is it always tends to give the interrogators all they might want, and more, in a desperate effort to stop or avert torture. What it doesn’t give is the truth. Lees verder<\/a><\/p>\n