Negotiations Begin On Fate Of Strategic Jewel Diego Garcia -- Aol Defense
Diego Garcia Guards Its Secrets Even As The Truth On CIA Torture Emerges -- the Guardian
There have long been questions on the role of the British territory in the rendition of US terror suspects. But not even the Senate’s damning report on CIA black sites has answered them
It was July 2005 and Jack Straw was in combative mood. During a parliamentary debate, the then foreign secretary insisted that there was no need for a judicial inquiry into the UK’s role in extraordinary rendition – “unless we all start to believe in conspiracy theories and that the officials are lying, that I am lying, that behind this there is some kind of secret state which is in league with some dark forces in the United States”.
But the publication last week of a long-awaited US Senate intelligence report has raised fresh questions about what the UK knew about the CIA’s torture programme – and in particular the role played by an obscure overseas British territory.
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Update: Is this speck in the Indian Ocean Britain's Guantanamo? Chilling questions raised over secretive island as more disturbing allegations emerge over UK's role in CIA torture -- Daily Mail
My Comment: We will probably be told on the role that Diego Garcia has played in America's "war against terror" campaign in the future .... my guess is somewhere at the end of this century .... maybe.
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