Britains former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has defied the Foreign Office by publishing on the internet documents providing evidence that the British Government knowingly received information extracted by torture in the “war on terror”.
Mr Murray, who publicly raised the issue of the usefulness of information obtained under torture before he was forced to leave his job last year, submitted his forthcoming book, “Murder in Samarkand”, to the Foreign Office for clearance.
But the Foreign Office demanded that he remove references to two sensitive government documents, which undermine official denials, to show that Britain had been aware it was receiving information obtained by the Uzbek authorities through torture.
Rather than submit to the gagging order Mr Murray decided to publish the material on the internet.
The link is
www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2005/12/damning_documen.html
