The agency claimed its techniques had led to the plots being foiled or suspected terrorists being caught and it included some of the examples in presidential briefings.
Source/Credit: The Telegraph
By Tom Whitehead | December 9, 2014
The CIA lied about having successfully foiled a series of UK terror plots and terrorists through its “enhanced interrogation techniques”, the damning torture report reveals.
Four of the eight cases most cited by the intelligence agency for the justification of its “brutal” torture programme had links to the UK.
The agency claimed its techniques had led to the plots being foiled or suspected terrorists being caught and it included some of the examples in presidential briefings.
It claimed that otherwise unobtainable crucial information came from the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and another detainee, Abu Zubaydah.
But the report systematically dismissed each claim and revealed that the technique had no role and at least two plots were foiled by the efforts of the UK authorities.
The cases included a foiled plot to crash hijacked planes into Heathrow Airport in 2003 – which led to then Prime Minister Tony Blair ordering tanks to guard the airport – and a linked plot to fly planes into Canary Wharf.
The CIA also claimed responsibility for capture of al-Qaeda UK operative Dhiren Barot and the foiling of his plot to pack limousines with explosives, as well as the capture of shoe bomber Saajid Badat.
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