Binyan revelations Britain is surely implicated

The interview that Binyam Mohameed gave to the BBC this morning is attracting a fair amount of coverage,not least for if true it more or less confirms British compliance in torture.

Michael White is quickly off the mark writing that

It all sounds ridiculous, but to my mind ridiculous enough to be plausible. As noted here before, crucial to the politics of Mohamed's campaign now is that M15 provided data to the Americans about him that led to him being sent to Morocco. Thus to the BBC today: "If it wasn't for the British involvement right at the beginning of the interrogations in Pakistan, and suggestions that were made by MI5 to the Americans of how to get me to respond, I don't think I would have gone to Morocco," he said.

This will once again bring to the fore questions to be raised about British entanglement with the war on terror as fought from Guantanamo bay.

The Economist sums it up nicely

Britain was the only western European country to be named as one that “facilitated” renditions. There are “consistent, credible reports” that British personnel have “provided intelligence or have conducted the initial seizure of an individual” for extraordinary rendition,