TWA: Torture World Airlines, British department.

All of you are probably aware of the torture flights, and how torturing prisoners is outsourced to other countries, and how unmarked jets are used to ship people off to those countries.

More details of this emerged in an article in the Independent which focuses on British involvement in this scheme.

It appears that the Brits are actively cooperating in this scheme, despite assertions to the contrary:

But a series of cases has emerged which, critics say, exposes the Government's dishonesty by suggesting information provided by Britain about its citizens and residents has led to the capture and eventual torture of Islamic terrorist suspects.

Britain is also an operational base for two executive jets regularly used by the CIA to carry out so-called "renditions". One Gulfstream jet - used for taking prisoners to Egypt and Jordan from countries including Sweden and Indonesia - has called regularly at Luton, Glasgow, Prestwick and Northolt airports.

Of course, we all know who supported the idea: the wonderful new Attorney General of the United States of America.

The procedure was supported by legal memos drafted by the White House Counsel, Alberto Gonzales, which claimed the Bush administration was not restricted by the Geneva Conventions when dealing with suspects from the so-called war on terror.

That's ok though, he's Hispanic, came from a poor family, and his life story is a True American Dream™. And the British government doesn't seem to worry about it either, since they go along with it:

Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, has also accused Britain of complicity in torture, because of the use that MI6 makes of the intelligence gathered in this way by CIA.

He said many prisoners of Uzbek origin captured by American forces were taken back to Uzbek jails where they suffered the most brutal torture. Information obtained from these interrogations ended up in MI6 reports that he received.

That's ok, though, because, as a British Foreign Office spokesperson said:

"If you have an agreement to work together against terrorism with another country then it's obvious common sense that one has to have a certain amount of trust in that country and in the way it chooses to use that intelligence."

See no evil, hear no evil. That's right. You can't hear the people being tortured scream, so who cares? It's all in the name of Freedom™.