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Off to the boiler: The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only...
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Daniel Tencer | Rawstory The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 [...]
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The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive , says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions...
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This is a really disgusting story of the way the Corporate Iintelligence Services (CIA, MI6, Mossad, whatever, they're all the same agency with front offices in respective countries) used the totalitarian dictatorship of Uzbekistan to torture so-called 'western terror suspects' and acted upon the findings. I mean, come on, arrest some fucking WAR CRIMINALS already. According to Craig Murray, the rector...
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