Published on Sunday, May 17, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco
by Andy Worthington
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..... David Rose reports that Binyam Mohamed has now stated that a British spy - or a "mole," as Rose calls him - was sent by the British authorities to Morocco in September 2002, in an attempt "to persuade him that giving intelligence to the British would end his ordeal.""It was one of my lowest points," Mohamed told Rose. "The really bad stuff (the torture which included having his penis regularly cut by razorblades) had already been going on for weeks. I thought he was a friendly face who might get the British to help me - but it was just another way of putting on pressure."
Mohamed's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, added that the Moroccans told Mohamed that the man, a British citizen of Moroccan descent, identified only as
Informant A, "was working with the British Government and pressed Mr. Mohamed to do the same if he wanted to end his torture."......................
What is even
more fascinating about this story, however, is the report of Binyam's relationship with Informant A before his capture, and the fact that other Guantánamo prisoners were also aware of the "mole."As Rose described it,
Informant A "knew Mohamed in London and helped him plan the fateful journey in the spring of 2001 that took him first to Pakistan, then to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. After Mohamed had fled the conflict, the mole was wounded fighting alongside Osama Bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora. Months after that, Mohamed saw Informant A again in Pakistan shortly before both men were separately captured."................
more at:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/17
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