Weird Links

British intelligence officials may have colluded in the torture of a British terrorism suspect who suffered months of appalling mistreatment, the Old Bailey was told yesterday. The officials appeared to have forged a tacit agreement with Pakistani torturers, one which suggests both sides in the war on terror have come "to share common standards of illegality and immorality", the court heard.

Salahuddin Amin was repeatedly beaten, threatened, and witnessed the torture of other detainees while being questioned by the Pakistani security service, the ISI, over an alleged plot to bomb targets in the UK, said his counsel, Patrick O'Connor QC.