Miliband faces MPs' questions over knowledge of rendition

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Source: The Guardian

David Miliband, the foreign secretary, is to be questioned by senior MPs over what he and his officials knew about the ill-treatment and secret interrogation of Binyam Mohamed, the former UK resident recently released from Guantánamo Bay.

The move was announced yesterday by the Commons foreign affairs committee, which said it also intends to investigate other key issues where recent evidence has thrown up uncomfortable questions for ministers to answer.

They are allegations of British complicity in torture in Pakistan, in the US practice of rendering terror suspects to countries where they risked being tortured, and in the transfer of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The cross-party Commons committee announced the move as the Foreign Office for the first time admitted it was investigating whether a criminal offence was committed when two CIA aircraft taking prisoners to unknown destinations landed on the British Indian Ocean Territory of Diego Garcia. Miliband and Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, have both refused to appear before parliament's human rights committee to answer questions about allegations of British collusion in the torture of British citizens, according to the Labour committee chairman Andrew Dismore.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/03/torture-rendition-binyam-mohamed-miliband

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Angry Dragon]

2. Throw them in jail until they decide to testify

They would do that to any one else.