The Curious Engineer

Craig Murray

2002–2006

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December 2006

  1. You’re attacking the wrong nation, Mr Blair
  2. Ceasefire Petition
  3. Admin note: Links repaired
  4. Outlawed
  5. Chicago man claims held and tortured by US troops in Iraq
  6. Root failures
  7. No 10 investigated for perversion of justice
  8. The War on Shampoo
  9. Diplomat’s suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war
  10. Terror plot starts to fail in the mainstream
  11. 9/11: The Roots of Paranoia
  12. “If you cross the path of tyranny…”
  13. Tories demand human rights focus
  14. Departing head of UN attacks Bush’s ‘war on terror’
  15. Pinochet takes his crimes to the grave
  16. When to leak?
  17. EDM 335: Immediate Withdrawal From Iraq
  18. De Menezes officers ‘lied about shooting’
  19. A Rollicking Autobiography or a Morality Play?
  20. Winners in Bologna
  21. Ghost Plane – CIA flight logs and new narrative published online
  22. Real Weapons – Not Muslim – No Story
  23. European Parliament publishes draft report on Government involvement in extraordinary rendition
  24. Rendition: Those liars and their lies in full

November 2006

  1. Live in Bologna
  2. Russia’s New Cold War
  3. The Premio Alta Qualit’ delle Citta?
  4. German courts to pursue Rumsfeld for war crimes?
  5. News from Afghanistan
  6. Against Islamophobia
  7. Juggle that
  8. A petition more serious
  9. Missing presumed tortured
  10. One more war crime
  11. The State Without
  12. The State Within
  13. A Local Perspective: Muslims and Community Cohesion
  14. BBC reopens Kelly case with new film
  15. The rules of the game – play to the tabloid gallery
  16. Legality, Morality and the War on Terror
  17. EU likely to roll back Uzbekistan sanctions
  18. UK Iraq policy a ‘rank disaster’
  19. Review: Murder in Samarkand
  20. Whitewash revisited
  21. REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
  22. Labour MP Hypocrisy
  23. The sentencing of Saddam Hussein
  24. A Complete Review Of Craig Murray’s Seminar or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Hate The Left
  25. Annan warns of no improvement in Uzbek human rights since last year, urges action
  26. The Horrors of “Extraordinary Rendition”
  27. EU divided over Uzbek sanctions
  28. The British parliament is God’s gift to dictatorship

October 2006

  1. MPs to vote today on an investigation of Government policy in going to Iraq
  2. UK Parliament to Debate Iraq War: Emergency protest called
  3. Ghost Plane
  4. Torture is “a no brainer for me” – Cheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding
  5. US ‘arrogant and stupid’ in Iraq
  6. No to Torture – former British ambassador to Uzbekistan speaks out against UK/US torture collaboration
  7. Crucial Extradition Treaty Vote Tomorrow!
  8. Aznar is gone, Berlusconi is gone, Blair has gone and now Bush must go!
  9. Iraq Deaths: Politics vs. Science
  10. Civil War in Iraq: The Salvador Option and US/UK Policy
  11. US legalises Presidential right to torture
  12. Media Hypes Nutcase Scribblings as “Terror Plot Admission”
  13. Strife in Samarkand
  14. Army chief calls for pullout from Iraq: Rift opens between military and government
  15. US and UK forces directly account for over 30% of violent deaths in Iraq
  16. Over half a million dead in Iraq
  17. Essential reading for conservatives
  18. Is Afghanistan Britain’s Vietnam? Mass migration as civilians try to escape fighting
  19. Informed Comment: Juan Cole on Craig Murray
  20. Borat was wrong. I never saw a gay wearing a blue hat on a Kazakh bus
  21. What happened on the 5th October?
  22. UK government back in court over legality of Iraq invasion

September 2006

  1. Mysterious Deaths of Uzbek Refugees in the US
  2. An unlikely collection
  3. The Time to Go Demonstration at the Manchester Labour Party Conference
  4. Islamist terrorism boosted by Iraq war: Blair clings on to ridiculous denial
  5. Nearly 6,600 civilians killed in Iraq in two months: UN
  6. US ‘threatened to bomb’ Pakistan
  7. British Army expert casts doubt on ‘liquid explosives’ threat, Al Qaeda network in UK Identified
  8. MOD failures in casualty reporting
  9. Military Families Peace Camp Goes Ahead
  10. British soldiers tortured Iraqi civillian to death: One pleads guilty to war crimes as case continues
  11. Bush War Crimes Commission: The final verdict
  12. Canada: Arar report exposes RCMP, government officials complicit in torture
  13. Guantanamo’s Catch-22
  14. Craig Murray in Liverpool
  15. Rights Groups Blast UNESCO for Awarding Uzbek President
  16. Light Matter on Murder in Samarkand
  17. Six Days To Go!
  18. Torturers, assassins and character assasssins
  19. Taliban “Ferocity” Stuns UK Troops
  20. The battle for international law continues in the US
  21. Bush’s reversals in war on terrorism: There is still hope for the US legal sytem
  22. Labour Council Moves to Supress Anti-war Demo by the Families of Dead British Servicemen
  23. De Menezes family brand promotion of officer ‘slap in face’
  24. Many top Bush officials guilty of violating anti-torture laws
  25. Uzbek folk singer receives suspended sentence for song about Andijan crackdown
  26. Top soldier quits as blundering campaign turns into ‘pointless’ war
  27. “Murder in Samarkand” confiscated by airport staff – again
  28. BRITAIN: The mysterious case of the disappearing ‘terror’ plots
  29. Mass hangings.. TV station closed .. Democracy reaches Baghdad
  30. Bush confirms existence of secret CIA prisons
  31. Banned in Britain
  32. Her Majesty’s Man in Tashkent
  33. Online Database of Terrorism Arrests
  34. The Real Threat We Face in Britain Is Blair
  35. ‘TIME TO GO’ UK Tour, September 2006 – Updated Schedule
  36. The freedom paradox

August 2006

  1. Uzbekistan: Observers Say Situation Heading Toward Upheaval
  2. ‘Titanic Express’ reviewed in the Independent
  3. Aero’s Cloaks and Daggers
  4. Manchester Labour Party Conference: Time to Go!
  5. “Rarity of integrity in public life”
  6. Tribune reviews “Murder in Samarkand”
  7. UK: Algerian national security deportation an affront to justice and a green light to torture
  8. Words equal liquids to mind police
  9. Still No Info on Terror War’s ‘Ghost Detainees’
  10. Iran is the the chief beneficiary of the ‘war on terror’
  11. The ‘Neoconservative’ Sufi Muslim Council
  12. Why Sustainability, not Terrorism, Should Be Our Real Security Focus
  13. The Crown Prosecution Service
  14. You really can’t fool all of the people all of the time
  15. “Murder in Samarkand” confiscated by Luton airport security
  16. John Reid’s Scaremongering Succeeds in Making Racism Normal
  17. White House uses London ‘terror plot’ to drive legislation
  18. Police, politics and public safety: Letters in the Guardian
  19. Conspiracy plots make the world go round
  20. Radio Waves: Mick Heaney: Voice of restraint
  21. Paul Routledge Gets Political on Biographies
  22. Deadly Baby Bottles
  23. “The Hollywood myth of binary liquid explosives”
  24. Tashkent tales of terror and tippling
  25. From the land of the free
  26. Hitting a nerve
  27. There must be a line somewhere: The Sharpner on Murder in Samarkand
  28. ‘Princess of Uzbeks’ cavorts in a cartoon wonderland
  29. Germany’s Favorite Despot
  30. US gave green light to Israel: Attack on Lebanon essential precursor for military options against Iran
  31. About John Reid
  32. The UK Terror plot: what’s really going on?
  33. The FO KO
  34. Bush seeks political gains from foiled plot
  35. No dead Lebanese children on TV today
  36. Plain speaking and hard drinking
  37. Blood on his hands
  38. The Ceasefire Now Demonstration – July 5th
  39. Selling our Souls: John Sweeney on Murder in Samarkand
  40. ‘Policies will lead to more terror’
  41. Who bothers with the monkey if he can go straight to the organ-grinder?
  42. Ceasefire Now!
  43. British ambassador to Iraq predicts civil war and breakup of the country
  44. Blair’s ‘new’ foreign policy
  45. Ambassador’s Tell-All Memoir: The Moscow Times Review
  46. Public meeting at UCL on government plans to spy on internet users
  47. A class war?
  48. HRW: Israeli failure to distinguish combatants and civilians is a war crime

July 2006

  1. Massacres and Wirecutters
  2. Despite the threats… – A review from the Sunday Post
  3. Workers from Uzbekistan sold one of their group to slave-masters to earn their own way home
  4. Iraq war families win hearing: Legality of invasion to be considered in court
  5. The Crown’s copyright con
  6. Murder in Samarkand: The Curmudgeon Review
  7. Crown Copyright and the right to know
  8. US missile flights pressure grows
  9. Lebanon Ceasefire Now Protest to take place in London on Friday
  10. UK airport used to fly bombs to Israel
  11. Craig Murray on Lebanon
  12. Our man in trouble
  13. Whitehall dug for dirt on rebel envoy
  14. Dimming the beacon of freedom
  15. The death of David Kelly is back in the news
  16. Article 3 returns to the US
  17. Terror suspects face possible abuse, court told
  18. Italy defense official denies involvement in CIA rendition of Egyptian cleric
  19. “We need another Dickens”
  20. Foreign Office legal action “unlikely to succeed”
  21. Foreign Office issues new deadline, Craig Murray replies
  22. And which court ruling is that?
  23. FCO moves to obtain court injunction against online Murder in Samarkand documents!
  24. Police report: foreign policy helped make UK a target
  25. A public enquiry for 7/7: One year on the need is still as great
  26. Murder in Samarkand Published today!
  27. Italians arrested over CIA kidnapping
  28. Murder In Samarkand – Supporting Documents Released Online!
  29. Checking the Decider
  30. UK parliament publishes damning report on Blair’s foreign policy
  31. Judges cut through the hysteria of rulers made tyrants by fear
  32. Henry Porter and Tony Blair: The letters
  33. Charged for quoting George Orwell in public

June 2006

  1. World skeptical over Guantanamo Bay ruling
  2. Blair’s Big Brother Legacy
  3. EU members urged to admit to CIA renditions
  4. Executive house arrest ruled unlawful: Another piece of government legislation proves not-fit-for-purpose
  5. Council of Europe approves anti-rendition resolution
  6. Benefit event for Flight-Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith
  7. BBC parrots Police untruths over rendition protests
  8. Special Offers on Global Flights!
  9. Germany: Challenge to Ruling on Uzbek Ex-Minister
  10. Titanic Express published today
  11. ‘Why is my sister’s killer feted at peace talks?’
  12. Bosnia confirms illegal handover of Algerians
  13. The US embassy memo: Why the media silence?
  14. US military honoured in secret by Britian
  15. ‘Wash Post’ Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Details Increasing Danger and Hardship
  16. Guantanamo and Medical Ethics
  17. MPs to press ministers on torture claims
  18. Victims lose Saudi torture case
  19. Bottled up: why Coke stands accused of being too cosy with the Karimovs
  20. Partners in crime: Europe’s role in US renditions
  21. British mercenaries cleared by US
  22. You can’t teach old collaborators human rights
  23. The Banality of Evil
  24. Vigils to demand action on torture flights
  25. The death of Zarqawi
  26. The Spider’s Web
  27. ‘Rendition’ hypocrisy
  28. Council of Europe Reports on Extraordinary Rendition
  29. Not In Our Name Statement of Conscience
  30. Coucil of Europe report on extraordinary rendition out today
  31. Met chief could face charge over Menezes
  32. Is Haditha just the tip of the mass grave
  33. Linking hands across the steppes
  34. Activists Rally Around ‘Torture Awareness Month’
  35. The Professor of Repression
  36. Another massacre of civillians by US troops
  37. Germany admits rendition gaffe
  38. A chronology of the Haditha massacre

May 2006

  1. Haditha massacre investigation
  2. Enron, Bush and Uzbekistan
  3. Torture Flights: The Shocking Facts
  4. UK government fails to investigate renditions and tries to undermine ban on torture
  5. European governments cover up illegal CIA abductions
  6. Sovereign Nations
  7. Ex-ambassador skewers CIA
  8. Labour party auction signed copies of the Hutton report
  9. Over here…
  10. Blair ‘paying the price’ over sleaze
  11. UN torture report confirms US transgressions
  12. Rub back!
  13. US officials give weight to reports of CIA kidnappings in Europe
  14. UN rights official says US stonewalling probes into CIA rendition claims
  15. When will this abuse of human rights end?
  16. Postal Voting and Electoral Fraud
  17. Red Cross Repeatedly Denied Access to US Prisoners
  18. Beckett defends her position on Iran
  19. KQED interview on Torture and Human Rights
  20. Torture, Oil and Bush and Blair
  21. The Andijan Massacre – Sign the Petition!
  22. Blair views the roses of future sucess
  23. International Demonstrations Planned for the Anniversary of the Andijan Massacre
  24. Andijan One Year On: Lessons and Perspectives for the Future’
  25. Censorship of the media in Uzbekistan
  26. ACLU Calls for U.S. Accountability Before the U.N. Committee Against Torture
  27. One Year After Andijan: Uzbekistan Shuts Down the News
  28. Jack Straw hits the road!
  29. Invisible in Plain Sight: CIA Torture Techniques Go Mainstream
  30. Straw gets chopped
  31. US: Government creating “climate of torture”
  32. Macedonia fails to convince EU investigative team
  33. UN Committee Considers the US Record on Torture During the “War on Terror”
  34. MEPs probe ‘CIA detention’ case
  35. Voting tomorrow? London Strategic Voter calls for a decisive turnout
  36. Craig Murray on receiving the Samuel Adams Award
  37. Petition to free Malcolm Kendall-Smith
  38. Speaking the unspeakable: Craig Murray on University speaking tour in the US
  39. UK fights to safeguard immunity of officials accused of torturing Britons

April 2006

  1. European Inquiry Says C.I.A. Flew 1,000 Flights in Secret
  2. EU Parliament enquiry whitewash?
  3. Diplomat: US, UK used torture information
  4. Germany Accused of Accepting Information Gained Under Torture
  5. West used information secured under torture, ex-diplomat says
  6. Down and back
  7. Blair’s hopes of surviving until 2008 may rest on local elections
  8. Jack Straw on banning the publication of political memoirs
  9. The shooting of de Menezes: inquiry witness on a collision course
  10. Stop in the name of the law
  11. RAF doctor: I had no choice but to refuse Iraq duty
  12. Plans for Iran attack go nuclear?
  13. Jack Straw speaks out on safe sex?
  14. Abducted imam seeks return to Italy
  15. Germany’s dialogue with the Uzbek regime: a disgrace for German democracy
  16. Guantanamo detainee claims he was handed over by the US to Morocco for torture
  17. Germany: Prosecutor Denies Uzbek Victims Justice
  18. Canadian juvenile boycotts Guantanamo trial
  19. Stuff Happens off Broadway
  20. Anything anytime…..
  21. Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and ‘disappearance’
  22. Strategic Voters target New Labour wipe-out in 4th May London local elections
  23. Little has changed despite Abu Ghraib (or Condi’s visit)
  24. Ahead of a new report US admits Scottish airport used on rendition flight
  25. Movie stars in Straw poll
  26. Jack Staw is considering publishing his memoirs…
  27. Terror backlash from the Iraq war will effect the UK ‘for years’
  28. Beware, Jack, there’s steel in her heart

March 2006

  1. Jack and Condi: not so much a match made in heaven as a computing error at Dateline
  2. Pressure grows on the Straw-Rice visit to NW England
  3. Riverbend sails on…
  4. More investment in permenant US military bases in Iraq
  5. Coming to a cinema near you … Alan Partridge as Our Man in Tashkent
  6. MI5 enabled the extraordinary rendition of UK residents
  7. Rendered Meaningless: The Rule of Law in the US ‘War on Terror’
  8. Your government is corrupt! Ghana 2000
  9. The Haditha Massacre
  10. Publication of Political Memoirs: Tony Benn makes the case for openess
  11. MOD publishes confused and misleading figures for British casualties in Iraq
  12. Macedonian minister refuses to collaborate in CIA Probe
  13. ‘Talking to Terrorists’ a review of the US production
  14. Venice Commission lays down the law on secret detentions and extraordinary rendition in Europe
  15. Arar tells EU investigators of ordeal
  16. A Lifeboat for the Media
  17. Saving Central Asia from Uzbekistan
  18. Human Rights Watch: Do Not Close U.N. Refugee Office
  19. The rendition row: history and hypocrisy
  20. Canadian flies in to testify at EU probe on extraordinary rendition
  21. The Truth About Lies
  22. Ex-UN chief: America has ‘lost its moral compass’
  23. UN Refugee Agency expelled from Uzbekistan
  24. Strategic voting in the London elections: Make May 4th count!
  25. ‘The time for accounting is now’
  26. ‘Rendition flights’ landed in NI
  27. ‘Talking to terrorists’ opens in the US
  28. Craig Murray to speak at London anti-war demonstration tomorrow
  29. RAF doctor may face court martial over Iraq
  30. 18.03.2006
  31. Aegis still in the money and back in the news
  32. MI5, Camp Delta, and the story that shames Britain
  33. More evidence of Foreign Office complicity in torture
  34. “Get away from me. I will not be insulted by you. This is an insult” – Charles Clarke’s words to the father of a 7/7 survivor who challenged him about the lack of a public inquiry
  35. Government washes its hands of weapons sales to the Uzbek government
  36. Book review: The Railway
  37. Tessa Jowell’s husband may be put on trial with Berlusconi
  38. The Oscars: Iraq edition
  39. Medical ethics at Guantanamo called into question: Doctors call for an end to force feeding
  40. Road to Guantanamo tonight
  41. Britain moves to stop diplomat tell-alls
  42. Enemy Combatant: Moazzam Begg publishes book on his experiences in Guantanamo
  43. British government minister says Guantanamo must close to save democracy
  44. Out of the woods?
  45. Minister admits ‘rendition’ planes used RAF bases
  46. Dahr Jamail Follows the Trail of Torture
  47. Embedding Torture as Policy from Guantanamo to Iraq
  48. The Lancet publishes research on government under-reporting of British casualties in Iraq
  49. Beyond Abu Ghraib – lessons still not learnt
  50. Sunday morning and still angry
  51. Impeach Blair
  52. If Fred and Rosemary West Had Separated, Would That Have Made Them Innocent?
  53. Everyone has regrets: An interview with Craig Murray
  54. A Guantanamo prisoner talks to the BBC
  55. Invest in a TESSA
  56. Italy and Poland still under suspicion over CIA ‘Secret prison’
  57. U.S.-Italian relations “on the line” in Italian CIA extradition case
  58. Who actually believes this?
  59. I thought I had heard it all
  60. Ambassador memoirs put UK officials on edge
  61. Council of Europe publish report on alleged CIA detentions and rendition flights in Europe
  62. Run of the Mill
  63. Uzbek court jails opposition activist for 10 years

February 2006

  1. Normality and the Jowells
  2. Impeachment issue hangs on accountability
  3. A green light for torture
  4. After the Road to Guantanamo
  5. Director Options Dismissed U.K. Diplomat’s Book
  6. Craig Murray to address Tower Hamlets Stop the War meeting, Wednesday 1st March
  7. A Celluloid Headache: more on the Craig Murray movie
  8. MPs recall Straw as air traffic controllers confirm 200 CIA flights
  9. Human rights “a broken promise in the UK”
  10. CIA flights: “If Straw and Blair get away with this foul abuse, then the rule of law is finished”
  11. Pressure builds over rendition flights in UK
  12. Five European states withhold information on CIA flights
  13. Who will blink first?
  14. Steve Coogan “in the frame” to play Craig Murray in film version of Murder in Samarkand
  15. MOD delays the release of British casualty figures
  16. Not lost in translation
  17. Outrage grows over Police harrassment of “Road to Guantanamo” actors
  18. Straw faces a torturous spell in the witness box
  19. “She asked me whether I intended to do more documentary films, specifically more political ones like The Road to Guant’namo'”
  20. Uzbekistan: In for the Long Haul – A report from the International Crisis Group
  21. Bush Commission Evidence Online
  22. More on Guantanamo and Rendition
  23. Torture flights landed in UK, admit air controllers
  24. Henry Porter: Blair’s new laws leave us at the mercy of future tyrants
  25. Clare Short: I weep for our errors in Iraq
  26. *INTERNET EXCLUSIVE*: UK police arrest stars of award-winning film “The Road to Guantanamo” under the Prevention of Terrorism Act
  27. New calls for UK inquiry into secret CIA flights
  28. Ukraine: Uzbek Asylum Seekers Sent Back to Face Abuse
  29. EU Parliament reveals plans for its investigation into extraordinary rendition
  30. UN calls for the closure of Guantanamo Bay
  31. Connecting the Dots
  32. ACLU renews its call for investigation of US abuse and torture
  33. Glorification?
  34. Amnesty International USA Launches Online Discussion Series: Lives torn apart
  35. The Flying Iman on ‘Fighting for the rights of others’
  36. Leaking of the draft UN Guantanamo Report puts pressure on the US
  37. Keeping the video from Iraq in perspective
  38. CIA chief sacked for opposing torture
  39. Italy may put CIA agents on trial in absentia
  40. EU justice commissioner addresses new committe on extraordinary rendition
  41. House Committee Kills Torture Inquiries
  42. Murder in Samarkand – and other books that may be of Interest
  43. Murder in Samarkand: The FCO prepares for legal action
  44. Declaration and Publication: The Stagg Letter and The Final Rejoinder
  45. Craig Murray’s “Murder In Samarkand” available for pre-order now on Amazon
  46. ACLU call for release of torture documents by the Bush administration
  47. Siddiqui urges Muslims to embrace freedom of speech
  48. “24” in the real world: What’s a little torture between enemies?
  49. John Reid calls for the use of “implacable force”
  50. Publish and be damned
  51. Home Office to water down anti-torture/war crime legislation under pressure from Israeli government
  52. Craig Murray on cartoons and religion
  53. Battle Plans for Iran?
  54. Senior US official in Iraq admits stealing $2 million of reconstruction aid and taking bribes in exchange for $8 million worth of contracts
  55. Preliminary findings from the Bush Crimes Commissions
  56. LEAK OF THE WEEK: Bush considered provoking war with Saddam by flying a US spyplane over Iraq bearing UN colours
  57. Lords defeat government attempt to give Police arbitrary power to ban websites
  58. Foreign Affairs Committee: Will the FCO Release the Requested Documents on Torture?

January 2006

  1. 100th British soldier killed in Iraq
  2. London bombings survivor Rachel North on the government’s refusal to acknowledge the causes of terrorism
  3. Commission of inquiry into Bush war crimes and crimes against humanity to release preliminary findings
  4. The McCain Amendment and Other Stories
  5. What Degree of UK Complicity? Martin Scheinin on Extraordinary Rendition
  6. Amnesty International: ‘The issue now is what will be done about it’
  7. UK Parliamentary Group on Rendition Meets to Discuss the Next Move
  8. The ‘missing’ laptop
  9. Secret Memo on British Involvolment in CIA Flights Now Available
  10. ‘Gangster US’ accused over torture: Britain accused of particular complicity
  11. No10 dismisses ‘rendition’ report
  12. US “outsourced” torture, European investigator says
  13. Council of Europe Debate Broadcasting Live…..
  14. Council of Europe Publish Interim Report on CIA Detention Centres
  15. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Biggest Terrorist Of All?
  16. MPs accuse Straw over misleading them over ‘rendition’
  17. Foreign Office Minister Misled Parliament Over UN Meeting on Extraordinary Rendition
  18. Bush Commission Hears Evidence
  19. No Rendition Flights Through the UK Since 911?
  20. Democracy Now: Craig Murray on why he Defied the UK Foreign Office by Posting Classified Memos
  21. Murray and Karpinski Interviewed on Detainee Abuse
  22. UK Casualties in Iraq: Whats the real figure?
  23. European Head of Counter-terrorism Criticises Impact of US Policies on Torture and Rendition
  24. Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative
  25. “I am prepared to go to court and I am prepared to go to prison to oppose war and the erosion of our rights”
  26. LEAK OF THE WEEK: Leaked memo reveals UK government strategy to deny knowledge of detention centres
  27. Human Rights Watch: torture and mistreatment have been a deliberate part of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism strategy
  28. Craig Murray to Testify at Bush War Crimes Commision in New York
  29. Landmark Speech by Al Gore Cites the Tashkent Telegrams
  30. Torture exportation hides behind ‘extraordinary rendition’
  31. US terror strategy illegal – expert
  32. Alleged CIA detentions: PACE President welcomes European Parliament investigation
  33. Straw under fire for refusing CIA flights inquiry
  34. LEAK OF THE WEEK: Swiss intelligence whistleblower releases documentary evidence of CIA torture prisons
  35. Rendition Flights: Ministers will not be able to avoid the scandal for ever
  36. When Moonbats attack…
  37. Impeach Blair, says General Sir Michael Rose
  38. Andijan amnesia? India to train Uzbek army with British “observers” present
  39. Council of Europe backs calls for Shannon flights probe
  40. Whitehall unconfidential: the censors are on the run
  41. Sun Tzu and the Art of Spying
  42. Liberty – No Torture, No Compromise
  43. Have Bloggers Killed the Official Secrets Act?
  44. UK Ambassador Protests Torture Policies
  45. A Call to US Ambassadors
  46. On the death of the Official Secrets Act
  47. Her Majesty’s Secret Service?
  48. Repression of Uzbekistan’s Secular Opposition Reaches New Levels
  49. Asil Nadir, MI6, and the flight to Cyprus
  50. Anger at refusal to reveal legal advice on possible torture flights
  51. Jack Straw Caught Lying Again? – British admit being at terror grilling
  52. New Year’s Greetings
  53. BBC Radio – Craig Murray and the Letters from Tashkent

2005 396

December 2005

  1. Server Down and Back
  2. But what if torture can protect us from terrorism?
  3. More old news
  4. Damning documentary evidence unveiled. Dissident bloggers in coordinated expose of UK government lies over torture.
  5. Another blow to the UK government’s ban on free speech – Catholics commemorate the dead inside the exclusion zone. No arrests made.
  6. Alleged MI6 torturer back in Britain – but will he face justice?
  7. Europe-wide arrest warrants issued for CIA agents suspected of kidnapping and complicity in torture
  8. Will Tony Blair arrest us for singing songs of peace and goodwill in Parliament Square at 6pm this evening? Christmas Carol concert will test the limits of government free speech ban.
  9. Foreign office staff threatened resignations in bid to stop US bombing of Al Jazeera. Jack Straw lies over CIA flights.
  10. Extraordinary Rendition – the cover-up continues
  11. British Police Begin Inquiry Into Alleged CIA Torture Flights
  12. Condi’s iffy rendition of ‘Evita’
  13. America kidnapped me
  14. Evidence Mounts Against UK Governments Denials Over Extraordinary Rendition
  15. Public Carol Service in Parliament Square
  16. Torture: security vs. values
  17. Tortuous Distinctions
  18. Public Carol Service in Parliament Square
  19. Petition Launched Demanding Enquiry Into London 7/7 Attacks
  20. Uzbekistan: Andijon Residents Speak About The Trials
  21. Germany: Uzbek Minister Accused of Crimes against Humanity
  22. Complicit by Inaction: Jack Straw in ‘rendition flights’ probe
  23. Rendition victim was handed over to the US by MI6
  24. Europe will investigate CIA terror flights
  25. Uzbekistan: RFE/RL Forced To Close Tashkent Bureau After Government Denies Accreditation
  26. Mercenaries in Iraq – Q & A from the FAC
  27. Council of Europe Finds Evidence of CIA Abductions and Secret Prisons Credible
  28. White Gold – The True Cost of Cotton from Uzbekistan
  29. British Agents Kidnapped Suspects in Greece?
  30. Straw Plays Ignorant
  31. Ex-rendition detainee alleges British complicity in torture. CIA in “deep crisis” over US torture policy. Agents “refusing to participate” in rendition.
  32. International Peace Conference Condemns Conflict in Iraq
  33. Torture Evidence was Used to make Case for Iraq Invasion
  34. The UK did use evidence gained under torture
  35. US Deny Red Cross Access To Prisoners
  36. The National Security Whistleblowers Association
  37. Massive blow to Blair-Straw torture policy – Lords rule out use of secret evidence gained through torture as grounds for detention without trial
  38. Rice’s claim that U.S. dosn’t torture is based on administration’s narrow definition
  39. Human Rights Under Renewed Threat From Asylum and Nationality Bill
  40. UK and Germany Agreed to Allow Visas for Uzbek Politicians
  41. The Real Definition of Torture
  42. Berlusconi Denies Involement in CIA Kidnap
  43. Extraordinary and unacceptable
  44. Germany’s victim of extraordinary rendition sues in US courts as Rice is forced on defensive
  45. CIA’s ‘Harsh Interrogation Techniques’ Described
  46. Categories and Topics
  47. Some views from the UK as Rice starts European visit
  48. The Torture-Go-Round
  49. The New Boom Industry: Torture
  50. Elizabeth Wilmshurst: It is time for Britain to come clean on its part in rendition
  51. Blair faces allegations of complicity in torture
  52. UK opposition party calls for end to use of mercenaries in Iraq
  53. Former CIA officer speaks out on extraordinary rendition
  54. The Name Game
  55. Liberty launch ‘No torture, no compromise’ campaign

November 2005

  1. U.S. Acknowledges Secret-Prison Concern
  2. Judge rejects appeal of CIA arrest warrant
  3. Dick Cheney “could be subject to war crimes charges”
  4. Straw plans to change rules on diplomats memoirs
  5. Blast from the past
  6. Pat Finucane Centre
  7. Questions in Parliament on exemptions and violations of Uzbek travel ban
  8. Why Torture Doesn’t Work
  9. More evidence of CIA landings in Malta surfaces
  10. CIA ‘torture trips’ using city airport
  11. Love hurts: The World According to Leo Blair
  12. Bloggers call for Al Jazeera memo publication
  13. Uzbekistan switching its gaze to Russia
  14. “Blind to the ‘Butcher of Andijan'”
  15. Uzbekistan grants Germany use of its airports in return for medical treatment for minister implicated in massacre?
  16. No comment to Parlimentary question on torture
  17. FCO stalls on Craig Murray book clearance
  18. Uzbekistan looks east for new friends
  19. Italian prosecuter to push ahead with prosecution of CIA agents “in absentia”
  20. Uzbekistan to ban some NATO overflights-alliance
  21. Qatar shock at al-Jazeera bombing report
  22. Uzbekistan: Journalist Honored For Coverage Of Andijon Unrest
  23. UN Committee Pressures Uzbekistan Over Andijon
  24. UK writes to US on behalf of EU CIA investigation
  25. Ministers silent on CIA flights to transport terror suspects
  26. UK government admits to turning a blind eye to CIA rendition flights
  27. One of the new commentariat
  28. Foreign Affairs Committee to call British government documents on use of torture evidence
  29. Germany defies EU’s Uzbek ban
  30. House Panel Probes Religious Freedom in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
  31. Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the Andijan Trial
  32. UN rejects US restrictions on Guantanamo visit
  33. Iceland is also waiting for ‘CIA flight’ explanation
  34. Britain to become hub for CIA terror prisoner flights
  35. CIA rendition flights – where didn’t they land!
  36. Madrid opens inquiry into CIA ‘torture’ flights
  37. “Flayed alive” – the human rights situation in Iraq today
  38. Andijan ‘show trial’ fails to convince
  39. Not all flights from Mallorca are for tourists
  40. Torture bill
  41. Italy may seek return of CIA “operatives”
  42. Uzbekistan: Journalist Assaulted After Reporting on Massacre
  43. The dying art of diplomacy?
  44. Combating terrorism, differently
  45. Blaming America first
  46. Believe What We Say, Not What We Do
  47. Don’t be duped by yet another dodgy dossier
  48. White House Briefing: McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture Exemption A Couple Dozen Times
  49. No Question: Congress must pass a categorical ban on torture
  50. Secret Detention in CIA “Black Sites”
  51. EU eyes alleged CIA jails
  52. Polish officials admit mystery plane landed at remote airport but deny CIA link
  53. Government Terror Plan Branded as ‘Nonsense’
  54. MPs unite for inquiry into Blair’s conduct over Iraq
  55. British government and security agencies seek to legitimise torture
  56. Can we stop this terrible practice?
  57. A political war that backfired: former UK ambassador to the US launches his memoirs on Iraq
  58. Reputation of SOAS takes a knock
  59. US Lawmakers React to CIA Prison Story
  60. Europeans react to Wasington Post report on secret CIA torture facilities
  61. CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
  62. Parliaments in Canada, Italy, France, Sweden and the Netherlands investigate CIA operations
  63. A call to suspend Uzbekistan from NATO partnership
  64. Uzbekistan: Jailed Opposition Leader’s Health at Risk
  65. The Dangers of Friendly Dictatorships
  66. A gushing book review from Shirin Akiner
  67. Foreign Affairs Committee informed of documentary evidence that challenges the veracity of Jack Straw
  68. Jack Straw dodges questions on torture and extraordinary rendition
  69. The sins of Blunkett

October 2005

  1. Cheney seeks to legalize torture
  2. Nobody wants to talk to me’
  3. Canadian Deported by US to Syria was Allegedly Tortured
  4. Opposition leader tortured with drugs
  5. Hazel Blears responds to Craig Murray’s charge that she made false claims to Parliament
  6. MPs debate the Terrorism Bill – be careful what you say!
  7. Definitions of terrorism according to Charles Clarke?
  8. Torture to be sanctioned again in Westminster? – et sic per gradus ad mia tenditur
  9. ‘Bush Lied, 2,000 Died’ – that same slow slide into hell
  10. The reality of Britain’s reliance on torture
  11. ‘Harassment’ forces BBC out of Uzbekistan
  12. Andijan five months on
  13. Outing CIA Agents
  14. U.S. Operatives Killed Detainees During Interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq
  15. Police to probe US ‘torture flights’ landing in Scotland
  16. Medialens
  17. Amnesty International Alert
  18. Sanjar Umarov arrested in Tashkent?
  19. Minister ‘misled Commons’ over attacks by Islamic group
  20. White House seeks exception to allow CIA to continue abuse
  21. The Security Services Support Torture: That is Why We Have a Judiciary
  22. Foreign Affairs Select Committee
  23. MI5 officially admits they use torture evidence
  24. Hazel Blears made a claim to MPs I know to be false
  25. Scotland’s answer to Walter Wolfgang
  26. Mothers of dead British soldiers camp out at Downing Street
  27. Extraordinary rendition and torture – not just an American problem!
  28. Torture Flights: The Inside Story
  29. Two experts on extraordinary rendition: one invented it, the other has seen its full horrors
  30. One victim’s story
  31. Jack Straw: fully informed, fully culpable
  32. Britain sued for ‘complicity’ in torture
  33. What will our grandchildren think?
  34. Hazel Blears Lies to Parliament about Origin of Intelligence
  35. Blair in dock over his case for terror laws
  36. Iraq envoy’s tell-all memoir blocked
  37. Heroic Uzbek woman blows apart Karimov’s show trial
  38. UN official accuses US troops of starving Iraqi civillians
  39. US torture set to continue despite the McCain amendment
  40. How to lose the war on terrorism
  41. SOAS defends academic freedom – but only for approved viewpoints
  42. International media NGO loses battle to stay in Uzbekistan
  43. Experts Predict US Attack on Iran
  44. Trade in torture
  45. Urgent action to save the life of Mutabar Tadzhibaeva
  46. SOAS replies to the allegations against Akiner!
  47. Beyond parody, way beyond a joke
  48. The Ugly Uzbek
  49. US sends symbolic snub to repressive ally
  50. Uzbek preacher ‘died of torture’
  51. U.S. Senate defies Bush and imposes restrictions on prisoner abuse
  52. Planet Jack Straw – hecklers may be violently ejected!
  53. The absurd love affair between the UK and Karimov is thankfully over
  54. Torture is US Policy, Not Aberration: The Legal Responsibility Goes to the Top
  55. 90,000 bullets per insurgent! And they’re not all dead yet?
  56. Uzbek dissident in psychiatric hospital
  57. Craig Murray gives talk to RFE/RL in Washington
  58. The courage of Walter Wolfgang
  59. The role of Shirin Akiner – further comments and analysis

September 2005

  1. The EU’s tardy response to the Andijan massacre is criticised
  2. Italy issues three more arrest warrants for CIA operatives
  3. Abu Ghraib images to be released to American Civil Liberties Union
  4. Akiner exposed – Craig Murray slams SOAS “propagandist for the Karimov regime”
  5. “Happy molehunting” – Craig Murray sends his memoirs to the UK Foreign Office
  6. New Accounts of Torture by U.S. Troops
  7. Deportation of British residents linked to ’40bn arms deal
  8. No one is calling for an immediate British withdrawal from Iraq?
  9. Britain should not have “cocktail-party relationships with a fascist regime”
  10. A march for Peace and Liberty in London this Saturday
  11. Craig Murray embarks on speaking tour in the US
  12. Craig Murray TV documentary to be screened today
  13. Ex-ambassador accuses Straw of lying over torture
  14. Uzbeks accuse foreign media of coup attempt as Andijan ‘show trial’ opens
  15. Rebels are tried but the massacre goes unpunished
  16. I’ve seen the blood on Labour’s hands
  17. Safe h(e)aven for Uzbek strongman’s daughter
  18. Blows to democracy
  19. Arts world unites for plea to pull troops out of Iraq
  20. Deportations not based on intelligence assessment of risk
  21. Death in Bobur Square
  22. MPs from all parties prepare campaign to halt CIA terror flights from Britain
  23. One thousand British casualties in Iraq
  24. Evidence emerges of Britains role in extraordinary rendition
  25. ICRC – International Humanitarian Law and the “war on terror”
  26. Amnesty International – Human rights and the “war on terror”
  27. Indefinete executive detention without trial is approved by appeals court in the US
  28. Human Rights Watch – Uzbekistan
  29. Craig Murray documentary – Date and time change!
  30. ‘The Ambassador’s Last Stand’ – A forthcoming BBC TV documentary on the Craig Murray election campaign against Jack Straw
  31. UK government threatens judiciary with regime change over human rights
  32. Extraordinary Rendition – another European country says no to the US
  33. The Uzbekistan blog! – Preview of a book the UK government would like to ban

August 2005

  1. Update on the Pledge Bank list for Uzbekistan Blog
  2. The White House silence
  3. Uzbekistan – America and the European Union have let a dictator get away with murder
  4. Blair knew of Iraq war terror link one year before London attacks
  5. Pat Robertson to be banned from UK?
  6. Human Rights Watch – Renditions and Diplomatic Assurances
  7. Amnesty International reacts to UK government’s plans for deportation
  8. UN Special Rapporteur criticises Blairs position on deportations and torture
  9. Updates to the archive – new media files added!
  10. Lord Liverpool and Tony Blair?
  11. Uzbekistan in 20 seconds
  12. The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
  13. “Should Not Be Known”
  14. IWPR – The cost of Uzbek white gold
  15. Not Worth the Paper They’re Written On
  16. Robin Cook on Craig Murray
  17. “Those of us who believe freedom is important, face a huge battle over many years, and against great odds. We have lost our best leader” – Craig Murray on the death of Robin Cook
  18. Understanding Uzbekistan’s snub
  19. Casting Aside Justice
  20. American Civil Liberties Union
  21. Sanctions against Uzbekistan would be disastrous? – Craig Murray explains his position
  22. Guantanamo trials ‘half-assed’
  23. US challenged over ‘secret jails’
  24. Why the US won’t admit it was jilted
  25. “One of them made cuts in my penis. I was in agony” – the truth about Extraordinary Rendition
  26. Publish and be damned? – Secrets and spies
  27. “The policy of constructive engagement was myopic, morally corrupting, visibly hypocritical and unsustainable” – Craig Murray
  28. Uzbekistan told US to close down airbase ‘after gas deal with Russia’ and get out
  29. Uzbekistan kicks US out of military base

July 2005

  1. US airbase kicked out of Uzbekistan
  2. U.S. Evicted From Air Base In Uzbekistan
  3. EBRD issues new strategy for Uzbekistan
  4. Protest against government exclusion zone
  5. The “war on terror” is over?
  6. PERPETUAL WAR JUSTIFIES EVERYTHING
  7. British government threatens legal action to block book by Craig Murray
  8. CBS republish article on ‘extraordinary rendition’
  9. “The pathologist also found that his fingernails had been pulled out. That clearly took me a back.”
  10. New attacks hit London transport system
  11. New report from Iraq Body Count
  12. Craig Murray: “It is a foreign policy of oil grab cloaked in hypocrisy, and the impact of that policy on Muslims, that has caused this hate.”
  13. Riding Pillion in the US war on terror
  14. Uzbekistan – Human Rights Violations and Government Crackdowns
  15. Radio Chigaco Interview
  16. Moazamm Begg talks about possible motives for the London attacks
  17. British involvement in torture – Jack Straw obfuscates again
  18. “We are creating terrorism ourselves by our foolish refusal to face up to what kind of man Karimov is”
  19. Case studies on extraordinary rendition and torture
  20. EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION
  21. CIA “kidnappers” In Italy: Arrest warrants issued for 13 CIA agents for kidnapping a terrorist suspect
  22. UK Foreign Affairs Committee: “We find it surprising and unsettling that the Government has twice failed to answer our specific question on whether or not the United Kingdom receives or acts upon information extracted under torture…”
  23. Update on retrospective postings
  24. Talking to Terrorists
  25. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE LONDON BOMBINGS
  26. BBC Radio 4 – Craig Murray “On the Ropes” (link updated 20.09.05)
  27. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? – Lies, Damn Lies, and the Vengeful Dieting of Eric Cartman.

June 2005

  1. Uzbek killers taught “markmanship” by British army
  2. UZBEKISTAN: Protestant tortured by police trying to force abandonment of Christianity
  3. Italy makes a stand on ‘Extraordinary Rendition’
  4. A Bastard but Our Bastard: British Policy in Central Asia
  5. George Bush’s “Man in Central Asia”
  6. UK government under fire over aid to Uzbekistan
  7. “Karimov has agreed, for a suitable payment from US taxpayers, for Bush to attack Iran from bases in Uzbekistan”
  8. “Post modernist” foreign policy
  9. Uzbek “entrepreneur” denounces “devilish plot” by “foreign-policy dinosaurs”
  10. Uzbekistan, Great Britain and the Ousting of Craig Murray
  11. Idealistic democracy, total hypocrisy, and Israel: America’s man in Uzbekistan
  12. Britain helped train Uzbek killers
  13. Pressure Uzbekistan on rights
  14. Straw accused of currying favour
  15. Uzbek Ministries in Crackdown Received U.S. Aid
  16. Human Rights Team Reported Missing in Uzbekistan
  17. Balancing act on Uzbekistan: Which way will Washington lean?
  18. “We cannot remain idle while a government with which we have close ties so blatantly contravenes the ideal of freedom” – Senator John McCain
  19. U.S. Opposed Calls at NATO for Probe of Uzbek Killings – Officials Feared Losing Air Base Access
  20. “Bush lost no time in putting an air base in Uzbekistan, ostensibly to wage the so-called war against terror but in fact to prop up Karimov and extend the USA’s military range.”
  21. More killings in Andijan?
  22. “Explain American policy in terms of freedom and democracy and you get a contradiction. Explain it in terms of oil and gas and it’s completely consistent.”
  23. Fax emerges detailing Bush/Enron relationship with Uzbekistan
  24. Diplomats withdrawn from Uzbekistan
  25. Christian persecution worsens in Uzbekistan

May 2005

  1. “Uzbekistan has shown former Soviet states that the west tolerates the repression of peaceful protest in return for oil”
  2. US senators rebuffed by Karimov
  3. Karimov looks to China and Russia for support
  4. Uzbek army used British equipment in Andijan massacre
  5. “What we need in this region is an aircraft carrier in a smooth, calm sea and Uzbekistan is that aircraft carrier.”
  6. “If the journalists, correspondents come ‘ you should not tell them anything, otherwise we will find you.’
  7. Craig Murray accuses Straw of “pious hypocrisies” over Uzbekistan
  8. New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action
  9. “We are in a real sense culpable” – Craig Murray on the aftermath of the Uzbek massacres
  10. Demonstrate against the Uzbek massacres – Uzbek Embassy, London, 12 noon, Saturday 21st May
  11. Fax your MP!
  12. Conservative Party demands apology from Jack Straw over “disgraceful” treatment of Craig Murray
  13. Radio Netherlands Interview
  14. The blood of the Uzbeks, the hypocrisy of the West, and the last great oil grab
  15. The folly of “sonofabitchism”
  16. The US and its ‘special’ dictator
  17. The Metro – 60 Second Interview with Craig Murray
  18. (Financial Times) Winds of change reach central Asia
  19. (Times): Ready, steady, cook up reasons for supporting the boiling butcher
  20. Craig Murray (Guardian): What drives support for this torturer
  21. Straw criticises Uzbek ally as former envoy demands sanctions
  22. Anger grows as US government supports Karimov
  23. Craig Murray denounces western support for brutal Uzbek regime
  24. Outrage grows over US support for Uzbek government
  25. Uzbek forces open fire on protesters
  26. Vicious crackdown in Uzbekistan
  27. Thankyou to all those who voted for Craig Murray
  28. Straw aide linked to ‘voters’ in empty flat
  29. Help us make history in Blackburn. YOUR vote could tip the balance. Craig Murray’s final campaign diary from today’s Guardian.
  30. Straw’s seat is a hot spot of postal vote fraud claims
  31. You CAN beat Labour vote rigging
  32. Any volunteers coming up from London today…
  33. Desperate Jack Straw ships Iraq’s Deputy PM to Blackburn to shore up crumbling support
  34. Index On Censorship – interview with Craig Murray
  35. Leaked documents reveal Straw’s collusion with Blair war lies
  36. Radio report from Blackburn election campaign

April 2005

  1. ***NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST JACK STRAW – BLACKBURN – SATURDAY 30TH APRIL ***
  2. Muslims to march over terror laws
  3. Rory Bremner backs Keys and Murray
  4. Craig’s campaign diary from today’s Guardian
  5. Blair, Straw Lose Support From UK’s Growing Muslim Population
  6. Jack Straw “simply not up to the job”, says Labour MP
  7. Outspoken ex-envoy takes aim at Straw
  8. Overview of the antiwar Independents
  9. Fraud “endemic” in Labour’s rotten borough
  10. Secret memos, allegations, a sacking and a resignation – Timeline of Craig Murray’s posting to Uzbekistan
  11. Was Craig Murray sacked or did he resign?
  12. ‘Craig Murray. Middle-class hippy. Almost a gay icon’ – Craig’s campaign diary from today’s Guardian
  13. Labour complacent as Blackburn acquires “totemic significance”
  14. Jack Straw in battle for survival
  15. Teeing off in Tashkent
  16. Legal expert slams Straw’s position on torture
  17. Peace and Progress
  18. Fears grow over election fraud in Blackburn
  19. Overview of the challenge from smaller parties
  20. US complicity wth torture in Uzbekistan
  21. British complicity in torture
  22. Jack Straw “looking very beatable” – Craig Murray’s campaign diary from today’s Guardian
  23. Time for a “Portillo moment” in Blackburn?
  24. “Quite a lot of people are angry about Iraq” in Blackburn, admits Straw
  25. “Torturers are on the march” – Screenwriter condemns Craig Murray’s dismissal
  26. Martin Bell backs Craig Murray
  27. Speaking out for human rights and democracy
  28. Hit The Road Jack Straw (link updated 24.08.05)
  29. Making Uzbekistan a key election issue
  30. Election fraud in Blackburn
  31. Socialist Worker – Craig Murray, the doorstep diplomat

March 2005

  1. Craig Murray’s Campaign Diary (3)
  2. Sunday Times – Muslim says Straw made peerage offer
  3. The New Statesman – Our Man in Blackburn
  4. Craig Murray’s Campaign Diary (2)
  5. Boston Globe – US handling of terror suspects questioned
  6. Washington Times – Torture Doublespeak
  7. Sunday Times – Foreign Office faces probe into ‘manipulation’
  8. Craig Murray’s Campaign Diary (1)
  9. The Guardian – Our man in Blackburn
  10. The Guardian – No escape from the war
  11. The Circle – All the Good Torture Jobs Are Being Sent Overseas
  12. ABC News – CIA Jets Fly the War on Terror
  13. Criticism of the ‘war on terror’ not acceptable in the civil service
  14. CBS News – 60 Minutes – CIA Flying Suspects To Torture?
  15. Channel 4 – Torture; the dirty business (link updated 13.11.05)
  16. “The Right to Dissent”
  17. Association for Democracy in Uzbekistan – Confidential letters
  18. “Should not be known”

February 2005

  1. The Observer – British liberty is under threat
  2. “Talking to Terrorists”
  3. Evening Standard – Jack Straw on Labour danger list
  4. “Torture; the Dirty Business”
  5. “The pathologist also found that his fingernails had been pulled out. That clearly took me a back.”
  6. Sunday Herald – Ex-ambassador slams Straw over torture
  7. The Independent – A UK diplomat says Britain is part of a worldwide torture plot. Is he telling the truth?
  8. Sunday Herald – Ex-ambassador slams Straw over torture
  9. Radio Free Europe: Uzbekistan: Interview With Former British Ambassador Craig Murray
  10. The Guardian – Former ambassador takes redundancy
  11. Murder in Samarkand – and other books that may be of Interest
  12. The New Yorker – Outsourcing Torture

January 2005

  1. Indymedia – UK Torture: Interview with Craig Murray
  2. Speech to Caf? Diplo, Institut Francais

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December 2004

  1. The Observer – Trouble in Tashkent
  2. “Americans are not Scots, and John Purnell is not Craig Murray”
  3. BBC Hard Talk with Tim Sebastian – Interview with Craig Murray

November 2004

  1. IRIN News – UZBEKISTAN: Interview with Craig Murray, former UK ambassador
  2. “Selling Our Souls for Dross”
  3. The Guardian – UK allies among worst abusers of human rights
  4. Amnesty International – Uzbekistan: Britain’s ambassador was right to speak out
  5. Speech to Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs)

October 2004

  1. Uzbeks Protest at British Envoy’s Sacking
  2. The Observer – There is no case for torture, ever
  3. Daily Telegraph – The envoy silenced after telling undiplomatic truths
  4. The Guardian – How can Britain stoop so low?
  5. The Guardian – Former envoy drags Straw into torture row
  6. The Guardian – Undiplomatic truths
  7. BBC Radio 4 – Today Programme – Ambassador speaks out
  8. Spies “lap up” info from torture

July 2004

  1. The Guardian – The envoy who said too much

April 2004

  1. UK Embassy Bash Falls Foul of Uzbek Secret Police

February 2004

  1. The Guardian – Uzbek mother who publicised ‘boiling’ torture of son gets hard labour
  2. Gay Times – Our man in Tashkent

January 2004

  1. The Guardian – UK envoy to Uzbeks cleared of all charges

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November 2003

  1. BBC Radio 4 – Today Programme – The Craig Murray Affair

October 2003

  1. The Guardian – A good man in Tashkent
  2. The Guardian – Tony Blair’s new friend
  3. The ‘war on terror’ must not become a cover to support repressive regimes
  4. The Guardian – Ambassador accused after criticising US

May 2003

  1. The Guardian – US looks away as new ally tortures Islamists

January 2003

  1. British Envoy’s Speech Reverberates in Uzbekistan

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October 2002

  1. Speech To Freedom House

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