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According to redacted documents, seen by the MEE, an MI6 officer knew that Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi was placed inside a sealed coffin by the CIA at a US-run Afghanistan based prison. Al-Libi - alive inside the coffin - was then taken, aboard a truck, to an aircraft that was to fly to Egypt.
The MI6 officer and his colleagues reported the incident to their department's London HQ, stating that they "were tempted to speak out" on behalf of al-Libi, but failed to do so, adding: "The event reinforced the uneasy feeling of operating in a legal wilderness."
Once al-Libi was in Egypt, a country with a well-documented history of human rights abuses, both MI6 and MI5 fed questions to the detainee, receiving reports from his Egyptian interrogators.
Al-Libi, under torture, told his jailers that Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda had links to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program. The claim was cited as fact by US President George W. Bush as he made the case for war.
Upon being returned to the CIA, al-Libi stated that he had lied to avoid further torture. By that point the US, along with the UK, had already invaded Iraq.
Comment: This is what the NKVD/KGB used to do. They knew the result they wanted (i.e. the charge with which they planned to find you guilty), and then they tortured you until you told them what they wanted to hear. This confession was then used as proof of their predetermined conclusion.
The U.S. and UK have spent the last years hating on Russia, a holdover of their hatred of the Communist regime. Maybe they should stop and ask themselves: have we become what we hate?