U.S. Rendition Ignored British Protest

Posted on Jul 25, 2007

A British committee investigating possible UK involvement in extraordinary rendition has found that the U.S. ignored British intelligence caveats and concerns, possibly straining a historically close intelligence relationship. The committee also recommended a ban on cooperation that could lead to secret detention, which it said “is of itself mistreatment.”

BBC:

The cross-party committee said “routine” evidence sharing in the case of two British residents in Ghana in 2002 “indirectly and inadvertently” led to their rendition.

Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna were flown by the CIA first to Afghanistan and then Guantanamo Bay, where el-Banna is still being held.

The committee said the UK services “used caveats specifically prohibiting any action being taken” when they handed over the intelligence on the men.

It says the UK security services did not foresee that the US authorities would disregard the caveats, given that they had honoured the caveat system for the past 20 years.

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