World-News

Mr Murray has posted full texts of all passages the Foreign Office ordered deleted from the book version of Murder in Samarkand, the former Tashkent ambassador's account of alleged British complicity in torture by the despotic Uzbekistan regime.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1817625,00.html


From Information Clearing House

What do you get when you combine an ambitious IT scheme run by the government and a plan that threatens to ride roughshod over civil liberties? The answer is an unholy mess.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2261933,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Documents Show Cracks in UK Reactors as Blair Prepares to Push Nuclear Power.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0710-05.htm

Lethal doses of poison were tested on troops, says report into top secret Porton Down.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13868.htm

These documents clarify and support many of the claims in the book about the government's use of intelligence gained through torture, and also reveal the extent to which the Foreign Office sought to censor the book.

http://tinyurl.com/gk5qm


From Information Clearing House

The effect the war in Iraq has had on motivating Muslims planning acts of violence in the UK is underlined to senior Scotland Yard officers in a private briefing document compiled by anti-terrorist specialists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,,1814756,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Confidential papers show that the BBC allowed Britain's domestic security agency, MI5, to investigate the backgrounds and political affiliations of thousands of its employees, including newsreaders, reporters and continuity announcers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13874.htm

Only a spin doctor would deny that the media baron has a say in all major decisions taken in Downing Street.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1810266,00.html


From Information Clearing House