Murder in Samarkand - A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror
The Polemical Report (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Craig Murray is facing legal difficulties regarding some posts on his blog. As a gesture of solidarity, I'm linking to disruptive.org for mirrors of the offending blog posts and Smog's blog for screenshots .
Bartholomew's Notes on Religion (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The Quilliam Foundation exists to counter Islamic extremism in the UK by promoting a moderate Muslim alternative. This is of course a worthy aim, although the Foundation has critics who complain that it is a establishment-backed venture that uses public money to manipulate Muslim opinion for politicized ends. One of those critics is blogger and author (and “renegade former ambassador”) Craig...
Diplomatic Blogoir (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
A lively piece of work by Craig Murray looking at the prospects for Ghana getting rich and ruined by Oil Money. Knowing nothing about Ghana or indeed about Oil Money, I leave it to you to work out whether his well-turned analysis makes sense. It is certainly interesting enough. But this caught my eye: At the same time, revenue must urgently be directed to rural infrastructure, to increasing...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Here. If the current judicially imposed arrangement on privacy were enacted into the statute law, but with the burden of proof in libel actions placed on the plaintiff, then who could object to that? And why?
Deep Politics Monitor (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
By Ambassador Craig Murray 16 Nov 2009 Finally I have indisputable documentary evidence that the British government had a positive policy of using intelligence from torture in the War on Terror, and that the policy was personally directed by Jack Straw. Here are the minutes of the meeting at which I was told this. All references to the CIA and MI6 have been literally cut out, but the...
Craig Murray (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... POSSIBLY OBTAINED UNDER TORTURE 1. Michael Wood, Matthew Kidd and I had a meeting with Craig Murray (Me, British Ambassador to Tashkent) to discuss his telegram (Tashkent Telno Misc 01). (Detail of telegram deleted. In it I complained that we regularly receive material from the CIA, got from the Uzbek secret services, obtained by torture.) I said you had asked me to discuss this with...
Brennig Jones (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Craig Murray puts some facts and asks some very interesting questions
