Miliband and kidnapping
In summary then, here’s the Foreign Secretary on the subject of the US government using a UK territory for the purposes of kidnapping people and flying them to God-knows-where:
Like the matter of the UK being used as a stop-over point for missiles on their way to Israel, it’s not so much what is happening, as how it’s being done. By all means the US should keep on kidnapping and delivering weapons for use on civilians. It would just be nice if they could give some thought to finding a way of not ‘embarrassing’ the British government while doing it.
Because that’s exactly how you’d feel if a so-called close friend used your house as a rest stop for a kidnapping, isn’t it? Embarrassed. Picture your appearance at the subsequent press conference. ‘Yes, my friend did bring that missing girl to my house. I honestly never thought to ask just where he might be taking her. I’m so frightfully embarrassed.’
Update: More, more, more, more, more, more, more, more and… more.
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 am
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I particularly liked:
“The renditions - the transport of terror suspects around the world for interrogation - only came to light after a US records search, he said.”
See, they’d totally forgotten all about it until they went and looked it up.
Might be true. Maybe they were drunk at the time.
But they Americans couldn’t find them the first time they looked.
The folder must’ve been found by some cleaners who were cleaning down the back of a desk.
“There it is! We’ve been looking for that for years.”
When the Legal spokesman of the United States was on Newsnight, no one even bothered to ask whether his country admitted doing anything wrong in using that base in the Indian Ocean for prisoner transport without even notifying the Brits with whom they share the base.