Gosh, what a surprise - Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who investigated the American and British intelligence services long, long relationship with Assad (and who opposes the ISIS) has been relentlessly persecuted and subsequently reimprisoned for Syria-related terror offences... 08-09-2014: In the summer of 2012 I wrote about the first of my two visits to Syria to investigate leads into cases of British and American complicity in the rendition of terrorism suspects to the regime of Bashar al-Assad. This followed on from something I learned first-hand from CIA and US military intelligence agents who threatened to send me to Egypt or Syria if I failed to co-operate with them during my time in the Bagram prison. I made British MI5/MI6 agents, who were present at every leg of my unlawful imprisonment, fully aware of these threats. Their response was that I had to co-operate with their US counterparts. On my eventual return to the UK from Guantanamo, along with three other British citizens I received a letter from the Home Office informing me that my ability to apply for a passport had been restricted by the Home Secretary under the powers of the ‘Royal Prerogative’ Note: This was originally published on February 13th, 2014. In March, Begg, who has never supported the ISIS, was charged with unspecified Syria-related terrorism offences.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:00:58 +0000
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