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		<title>Adam Johnson, his English Messi?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johnson is expected to be a mainstay of Fabio Capello, who crossed the majority of the Three Lions squad that failed at the World Cup in 2010. Right midfielder, who claimed to feel more violent after failing to penetrate the World Cup squad, claimed to have studied the movement Messi, Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Johnson is expected to be a mainstay of Fabio Capello, who crossed the majority of the Three Lions squad that failed at the World Cup in 2010. </p>
<p>Right midfielder, who claimed to feel more violent after failing to penetrate the World Cup squad, claimed to have studied the movement Messi, Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben to improve capabilities. </p>
<p>Johnson is almost certain to appear at trial match on 11 August. He said, &#8220;I was disappointed not to appear in the World Cup, but it was all over. Maybe this will be a new beginning for everyone and probably will be an opportunity to grow. &#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;Hopefully, I can steal the opponent&#8217;s attention to Hungary. I was one pretty good player who appeared before the World Cup and I am very disappointed not to South Africa, &#8220;continued Johnson. </p>
<p>&#8220;Currently, most players just up and down the wing and help the defense team. Besides Robben, Messi and Ribery, there are not many players who have high skills to get past players. Players like this is what I liked, &#8220;Johnson connect. </p>
<p>Johnson admitted that there was no point thinking about the failure to penetrate and hold the World Cup. He&#8217;d better focus to maximize the chances of the next. </p>
<p>&#8220;If I play well for City and become a major player, the call must have come from England. My priority is to ensure a spot in the first team City. I&#8217;ll be happy if they succeed to get it since the first game this season, &#8220;the former Middlesbrough midfielder was connecting. </p>
<p>&#8220;Some people say I better not go to South Africa, but for me the World Cup remains something big and you have to wait four more years for the next opportunity,&#8221; Johnson commented.</p>
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		<title>British rider podium Mastered</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After going through the lengthy process intense enough, eventually the host driver, Cal Cructhlow, come out as winners in the first race series WSBK Silverstone, England, today (08/01). He managed to conquer this 5900km along the circuit and appear quite perfect. Obviously this is a fruitful effort from the drivers home sweet Sterilgarda Yamaha team [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After going through the lengthy process intense enough, eventually the host driver, Cal Cructhlow, come out as winners in the first race series WSBK Silverstone, England, today (08/01). He managed to conquer this 5900km along the circuit and appear quite perfect.</p>
<p>Obviously this is a fruitful effort from the drivers home sweet Sterilgarda Yamaha team on this one. The reason he has repeatedly occupied the pole position, but must also repeatedly failed. And this is the best top of the podium for him, because this victory is the first time he had reached after climbing to the WSBK class.</p>
<p>Do not want to lose good with compatriot Jonathan Rea also provides excellent resistance and is consistent with its position. Rea finally able mengankan second position at the end of the race. Then the home team closed by Suzuki Alstare rider, Leon Haslam in third podium.</p>
<p>Landslide victory of British forces in the first race can be used to predict the results of race two. Meanwhile, the Italian rider, managed to bend the fourth and fifth place. In fourth place, filled by Michel Fabrizio Ducati 1198R with her, while fifth place was occupied by the Roman Emperor Max Biaggi.</p>
<p>Can the drivers Berjaya England back on the podium in race two later, or Italian forces successfully pushed and steal a victory? Wait for the drivers of this world action to fight back in race two for a moment longer.</p>
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		<title>Nigerian President remove sanctions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a debate at the level of FIFA, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan finally lift sanctions to the football team to not appear in any international event, due to its failure at the World Cup in 2010. As is known, President Jonathan could prohibit the Super Eagles team to appear in the international arena over the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After a debate at the level of FIFA, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan finally lift sanctions to the football team to not appear in any international event, due to its failure at the World Cup in 2010. As is known, President Jonathan could prohibit the Super Eagles team to appear in the international arena over the past two years. </p>
<p>The goal, Nigerian football is expected to clean up before returning to compete in the arena of interstate. FIFA threat of sanctions was greeted with a policy of not interfering with the political affairs of football. If the sanctions imposed President Jonathan fixed, FIFA will suspend financial assistance to Nigeria, as well as the prohibition of the referee, the referee led the country of origin of international matches. </p>
<p>Includes freeze the country&#8217;s federation from all international activities. After a given time 48 hours, the President finally cancel the sanctions. &#8220;The President and the Commander of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan Ebele, Monday (5 / 7) to cancel the ban on Nigeria&#8217;s national team to participate in the arena of FIFA / CAF,&#8221; the statement quoted Nigerian soccer federation Goal. </p>
<p>This is obtained after the board conducted an intensive approach to the terrace of the National Sports Commission, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and related government agencies. With that decision means that Nigeria will qualify from FIFA sanctions, because of the ultimatum was due at 18:00 local time. And the decision was taken before that time. </p>
<p>FIFA officially declared already received a decision. &#8220;In a letter, the Government of Nigeria have confirmed the cancellation of the FIFA sanction their participation in the international arena over the past two years. As such, the rights of NFF dipu &#8211; restoring back,&#8221; the statement &#8211; the official FIFA tion.</p>
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		<title>Indian Military Commander Calls for Political Solution in Kashmir</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indian military leaders call for political solution to the unrest in Indian Kashmir, and said the military should support the role of security in the region. Valley street riots in a predominantly Muslim Kashmir has increased in recent weeks, after the death of several civilians were unarmed when the army tried to stem the protests [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Indian military leaders call for political solution to the unrest in Indian Kashmir, and said the military should support the role of security in the region.</p>
<p>Valley street riots in a predominantly Muslim Kashmir has increased in recent weeks, after the death of several civilians were unarmed when the army tried to stem the protests against the government of New Delhi.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the very need for a political initiative that invites all people to meet,&#8221; said General VK Singh told the Times of India in an interview published Wednesday (30 / 6). &#8220;Militarily, we&#8217;ve done all the internal security situation in Jammu and Kashmir is under control. Now, that is needed is the handling of politically sensitive.&#8221;</p>
<p>Singh added that local police &#8220;need to be more active&#8221; to allow the army, which now number around 500,000 to reduce its presence in the region. Three Indian soldiers and five suspected militants were killed in the firefight that began last Monday night (28 / 6), along the Line Full (LOC) border, which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan</p>
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		<title>Successful Aircraft Black Box Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 11:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mangalore &#8211; Air India aircraft black box that crashed at Mangalore Airport, India, has been found. Based on the investigation while the cause of these unfortunate incidents is purely an accident. This was conveyed by the media, the government of Saudi Arabia, WAM (Wakalat Anba&#8217;a al-Emarat) and quoted by Reuters on Saturday (05/22/2010). &#8220;The black [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mangalore &#8211; Air India aircraft black box that crashed at Mangalore Airport, India, has been found. Based on the investigation while the cause of these unfortunate incidents is purely an accident.</p>
<p>This was conveyed by the media, the government of Saudi Arabia, WAM (Wakalat Anba&#8217;a al-Emarat) and quoted by Reuters on Saturday (05/22/2010).</p>
<p>&#8220;The black box flight has been found and the local court has ordered the Director General of Civil Aviation to conduct the investigation,&#8221; the reporter WAM report from India.</p>
<p>A local official said that while the investigation results indicate that these unfortunate events is a pure accident. One local television station said the plane had hit the radar mast of the runway when landing at the airport.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no sign of danger from the pilots. This means there is no problem in communication system between the pilot to the airport,&#8221; said Director of Airport Authority of India VP Agarwal told local television.</p>
<p>Local television said the timing of 6:30 pm local time. In TV footage appeared the plane smashed among the trees in the woods near the airport Mangelore. The fire had burned the greats of aircraft debris, while firefighters tried to extinguish the fire.</p>
<p>&#8216;When he landed at the airport, the plane turned suddenly and collided with something. The plane was later burned and we fell out, &#8220;explained one of his survivors, Krishna.</p>
<p>Air India aircraft types Boeing 737-800 was carrying 160 passengers and six crew, consisting of 137 adult passengers, nine passengers and four children babies. All passengers are citizens of India. The report while 158 people were killed and eight survived. But one survivor, a boy aged seven years, declared dead after being treated in hospital. The death toll was increased to 159 persons.</p>
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		<title>SBY: &#8216;No Money Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 11:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jakarta &#8211; Drizzle Padalarang flushed through the night. Thousands of people dressed in blue-blue, which was previously menyemut along the arena of the Second Congress Democratic Party, was busy looking for shelter. At that location, there are only two large tents that can accommodate hundreds of people. Tents are constructed of the committee, which contains [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jakarta &#8211; Drizzle Padalarang flushed through the night. Thousands of people dressed in blue-blue, which was previously menyemut along the arena of the Second Congress Democratic Party, was busy looking for shelter. At that location, there are only two large tents that can accommodate hundreds of people. Tents are constructed of the committee, which contains the bazaar, so one of the coveted cadre of Democratic herd, avoiding the rain. One other tents, is &#8220;Kampoeng AM&#8221;. This location is also a choice of hundreds of cadres of other Democrats to take shelter. No wonder, when the drizzle to invite it, &#8220;Kampoeng AM&#8221; was flooded with cadres who want to cover. &#8220;I AM can be used as a shelter,&#8221; said Badia, one of the DPC board from Medan, North Sumatra, when the shelter was in place.</p>
<p>While inside, the event Congress World War II had begun. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) present there. So also with two thousand invitation, participate thronged Hotel Manson Pine, where the congress was held. The peak occurs when the event was addressed by SBY.</p>
<p>In the committee&#8217;s big tent bazaar, hundreds of people sit neatly in front of the big screen, listening to the speech would SBY. In &#8220;Kampoeng AM,&#8221; also similar. They waited about SBY landing a decent candidate to lead the PD-1 to the fore. Still, until the end SBY spoke, he did not explicitly mention who his choice.</p>
<p>Only, he delivered a message which could hold onto. &#8220;No matter how hard the competition, do not exceed the limit of decency. Prevent politics by all means, money politics, and violence are not supposed to. Do not let the clash of sheep,&#8221; Yudhoyono said in his speech.</p>
<p>When you carefully look at, from that sentence, actually SBY has given the signal light. Section, among which there are three candidates, Andi Mallarangeng (AM), Anas Urbaningrum and Marzuki Alie, only AM was the most frequent victims of &#8220;violence should not have&#8221; it. AM also the stronghold of the cast since the first time, will not make money politics in congress.</p>
<p>About violence, it&#8217;s constantly victimized AM. When the probe backs, efforts towards discomfiture of PD-1 AM this is not just this one time. Since the PM declared itself, March 28, 2010 and, indeed the smell of outsiders who want to tackle AM has been felt. 24 April 2010 incident in a political seminar in the number Cikini, Jakarta, certainly can not be forgotten. At that time, a group of people held a discussion, the PM made his face a picture mat. Each seminar participant who came, trampling automatic photo. Mirisnya again, PM&#8217;s face in a photograph seen impaled. Panangian Simanungkalit, coordinator of a successful team infocom AM, &#8220;From the beginning we were hit by a black campaign, what we were screaming,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Then, when the congress took place, dozens of banners and billboards AM purposely defaced, torn, and dicorat-streak with dirty words. Not to mention the invasion of black campaign that never stops. &#8220;Many outsiders who just do not like when the PM to lead the Democrats in the future,&#8221; said Ramadan Pohan, a member of House Commission I, this morning (05.22)</p>
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		<title>Deadly clashes as police besiege Bangkok protesters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 15:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thai forces in Bangkok have fired live rounds after surrounding a fortified protesters&#8217; camp amid clashes that left at least five people dead. Embassies were closed as protesters set fire to a police bus and shot fireworks at troops, who also responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. A BBC correspondent says the area is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thai forces in Bangkok have fired live rounds after surrounding a fortified protesters&#8217; camp amid clashes that left at least five people dead.</p>
<p>Embassies were closed as protesters set fire to a police bus and shot fireworks at troops, who also responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.</p>
<p>A BBC correspondent says the area is like a war zone with troops firing into a park as a helicopter circled above.</p>
<p>The demonstrators want the prime minister to resign and call elections.</p>
<p>Many of the so-called red-shirt protesters support former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup.<span id="more-43"></span></p>
<p>Journalists shot</p>
<p>The Bangkok authorities have cut off water and electricity to the camp in a renewed effort by the Thai government to reclaim the city centre.</p>
<p>Violence escalated after a renegade general who was backing the protest was shot by an unknown gunman on Thursday, leaving him in a critical condition.</p>
<p>The British embassy was among several foreign missions closed on Friday.</p>
<p>At least four people were killed on Friday and a demonstrator was shot dead on Thursday night.</p>
<p>At least 45 people have been wounded, reports quoting hospital sources say.</p>
<p>Broadcaster France 24 said its Canadian-born TV reporter Nelson Rand had been hit in the leg, hand and abdomen. There were also reports that two Thai journalists had been shot.</p>
<p>Residents fled as gunfire rang out when thousands of soldiers moved in to seal off access to the protesters&#8217; camp.</p>
<p>The troops advanced on hundreds of demonstrators who had set up a checkpoint outside the Suan Lum night market, popular with tourists, to stop soldiers approaching their main base.</p>
<p>A government spokesman, Panitan Wattanayagorn, told the BBC&#8217;s World Today the security forces were not trying to storm the barricades.</p>
<p>&#8220;We want to cut down a number of activities including the logistics, sending in the fuel and gasoline trucks,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Later, in a televised national address, he said it was hoped the situation would return to normal in the &#8220;next few days&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8216;Tightening the noose&#8217;</p>
<p>Thousands of protesters, including women and children, have reinforced their bamboo barricades and vowed to maintain their sprawling camp in a commercial district of Bangkok.</p>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s bid to rule the web as it goes social</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook set out its stall to unseat Google and be at the heart of the web experience as it becomes more social. The world&#8217;s largest social network unveiled a series of products at its developer conference F8 aimed at helping the company achieve that goal. These tools will make it easier for users to take [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Facebook set out its stall to unseat Google and be at the heart of the web experience as it becomes more social.</strong></p>
<p>The world&#8217;s largest social network unveiled a series of products at its developer conference F8 aimed at helping the company achieve that goal.</p>
<p>These tools will make it easier for users to take their friends with them as they browse the web.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are building toward a web where the default is social,&#8221; said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook&#8217;s founder.</p>
<p><!-- E SF -->&#8220;If you look back a few years ago and even as recently as today, in most cases the web isn&#8217;t designed to use your friends. They don&#8217;t assume you have a real identity but we are seeing that seep in more and more.<span id="more-40"></span></p>
<p>&#8220;We want to be one of the things that empowers that and right now most users are using Facebook and we hope we can be a good force in driving that forward,&#8221; Mr Zuckerberg told the BBC during a news conference.</p>
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<p><!-- E IBOX -->He added that the &#8220;web was at a turning point&#8221; and that the way forward was to have friends, or what Mr Zuckerberg called &#8220;your social graph&#8221;, to guide you online.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the points Mr Zuckerberg was making was that the web has become a lot less anonymous and Facebook is definitely positioning itself as wanting to be the owner of that information,&#8221; said Maya Baratz of the Huffington Post.</p>
<p><strong>Personalisation</strong></p>
<p>At the F8 conference in San Francisco, Mr Zuckerberg unveiled a number of products aimed at putting users and their friends at the &#8220;centre of the web&#8221;.</p>
<p>The most significant was an open graph protocol to let publishers tag their content by type along with a &#8220;Like&#8221; button that partner sites put on their webpage. This allows users to indicate what they like on a website, be it from photographs to news items and from clothes to music.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, says the Greek people should not fear the IMF. He was responding to a Greek journalist who said Greeks are demonising the IMF and fear the country&#8217;s economic crisis will be worse with its involvement. He replied that the IMF was there to help Greece, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, says the Greek people should not fear the IMF.</strong></p>
<p>He was responding to a Greek journalist who said Greeks are demonising the IMF and fear the country&#8217;s economic crisis will be worse with its involvement.</p>
<p>He replied that the IMF was there to help Greece, but deflected questions about negotiations with its government.<span id="more-34"></span></p>
<p>On Friday, Greece asked for an EU-IMF bailout of its debt-ridden economy.</p>
<p><!-- E SF -->Mr Strauss-Kahn was speaking after the agency&#8217;s main ministerial steering committee met in Washington.</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Act fast&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>The agency has a reputation for requiring borrowing countries to make deep cuts in popular government spending programmes, says the BBC&#8217;s economic correspondent, Andrew Walker, from the IMF headquarters in Washington.</p>
<p>But Mr Strauss-Kahn said the Greek people should think of the IMF as a &#8220;cooperative organisation&#8221; where the countries of the world work together to help those in trouble by providing resources and advice on behalf of the international community.</p>
<p>&#8220;Greek citizens should not fear the IMF,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are there to try to help them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Earlier, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called on the IMF, the EU and the Greek government to act quickly to tackle Greece&#8217;s debt crisis.</p>
<p>Mr Geithner asked the IMF and Eurozone countries to put together a package of strong reforms and financial support after talks with with Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, Mr Strauss-Kahn and several EU officials.</p>
<p>&#8220;Secretary Geithner encouraged them to move quickly to put in place a package of strong reforms and substantial concrete financial support,&#8221; said a statement from his office after the talks.</p>
<p><strong>Athens protest</strong></p>
<p>Consideration of Greece&#8217;s request for emergency loans totalling 40bn euros ($53bn; £35bn) in the first year has been a focus of talks at the twice-yearly IMF meeting.</p>
<p>Nations using the euro would contribute 30bn euros with the rest coming from the IMF.</p>
<p>The terms of the loans have not been agreed, but Mr Strauss-Kahn has said the IMF will &#8220;move expeditiously&#8221; in response to Greece&#8217;s appeal.</p>
<p>Mr Rehn said he thought the EU-IMF package could be completed by early May.</p>
<p>The funds are needed later that month when a large tranche of Greece&#8217;s debt comes due for renewal.</p>
<p>German officials have said Berlin will do its bit.</p>
<p>But there has been public opposition to funding a bail-out and Chancellor Angela Merkel said any aid would come with &#8220;very strict conditions&#8221;, including a credible savings plan.</p>
<p>The Greek government has already taken austerity measures, including cutting government workers&#8217; pay, freezing pensions and raising taxes.</p>
<p>The cuts have proved unpopular, prompting strikes and demonstrations such as a march through Athens on Friday in which several thousand protesters took to the streets.</p>
<p>The government&#8217;s cost of borrowing on international markets has spiralled, making it prohibitively expensive for Greece to borrow money from investors to service its debt.</p>
<p>Athens had hoped that just the promise of EU support, agreed last month, would be enough to reassure markets and help its recovery.</p>
<p>But Greece&#8217;s problems have continued to hit investor confidence in the euro and other European economies.</p>
<p>Ahead of the meeting, the Group of 20 big economies said the world was emerging faster than expected from its deep recession.</p>
<p>G20 finance ministers said the pace of the recovery was largely due to the huge amounts of government money pumped into national economies.</p>
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		<title>Ministers deny torture collusion</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two cabinet ministers have strongly denied allegations of collusion in the abuse of terrorist suspects overseas. But Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Home Secretary Alan Johnson said it was impossible to remove all risk when using intelligence obtained overseas. This came as a committee of MPs urged a probe into the transfer of terror suspects [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Two cabinet ministers have strongly denied allegations of collusion in the abuse of terrorist suspects overseas.</strong></p>
<p>But Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Home Secretary Alan Johnson said it was impossible to remove all risk when using intelligence obtained overseas.</p>
<p>This came as a committee of MPs urged a probe into the transfer of terror suspects through UK territories.</p>
<p>Last week a committee of MPs and peers called for an independent inquiry into claims of UK complicity in torture.<span id="more-32"></span></p>
<p><!-- E SF -->The Joint Human Rights Committee said on Tuesday the government had not done enough to investigate these claims, because it had been unable to establish whether British officers were involved in mistreatment.</p>
<p>Now the Foreign Affairs Select Committee has also said it has grave concerns that British officers were complicit in torture.</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Hard choices&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>But in a joint article in the Sunday Telegraph Mr Miliband and Mr Johnson said the UK &#8220;firmly opposed&#8221; torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.</p>
<p>They said there was &#8220;no truth&#8221; in suggestions it was official policy to &#8220;collude in, solicit, or directly participate in abuses of prisoners&#8221;.</p>
<p>But &#8220;difficult judgments and hard choices&#8221; had to be made, they added, and while anyone detained in the UK would be treated well, the same guarantee could not be made about those held by foreign authorities.</p>
<p>&#8220;Operations have been halted where the risk of mistreatment was too high. But it is not possible to eradicate all risk,&#8221; they wrote.</p>
<p>The pair, whose departments are responsible for Britain&#8217;s intelligence services, were responding to Tuesday&#8217;s report, but MPs on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee also want action to ensure Britain is not complicit in torture.</p>
<p>Its chairman Labour MP Mike Gapes said: &#8220;The government has a duty to use information that comes into its possession, from whatever source and however obtained, if it believes this will avert the loss of life.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the same time, we strongly recommend that the government should continue to exert as much persuasion and pressure as possible to try to ensure world-wide that torture is not employed as a method of interrogation.&#8221;</p>
<p>The committee also said there had been inadequate investigation into the transportation of two men through the American airbase on the small British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia.</p>
<p>It said the government had a &#8220;moral and legal obligation&#8221; to ensure UK airspace and airports were not for rendition &#8211; which is the transfer of suspects to countries where torture is carried out.</p>
<p>And it urged ministers to pile pressure on the US to carry out a comprehensive check of its records to establish whether there have been other cases beyond two from 2002 it admitted last year.</p>
<p><strong>Agency concern</strong></p>
<p>The report warned of the dangers of turning a blind eye while using information obtained in countries known for their human rights abuses.</p>
<p>It said: &#8220;There is a risk that use of evidence which may have been obtained under torture on a regular basis&#8230; could be construed as complicity in such behaviour.&#8221;</p>
<p>The committee had particular worries over Britain&#8217;s relationship with Pakistan&#8217;s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, whose practices give &#8220;cause for great concern&#8221;.</p>
<p>It also accused the Foreign Office of &#8220;pulling its punches&#8221; over the &#8220;massive scale&#8221; of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Mr Gapes also called on the government to publish the previous guidelines given to intelligence officers on the questioning of detainees overseas.</p>
<p>The environment secretary, Hilary Benn, said the government&#8217;s position was &#8220;very clear.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;The government does not condone the use of torture, we are resolutely opposed to it, and that remains the case.</p>
<p>&#8220;Other countries, they&#8217;re responsible for what they do, but the position of the British government is absolutely clear.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said a public inquiry was needed to &#8220;clear our name and remove the stain and the charge of hypocrisy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Scotland Yard is conducting a criminal investigation into claims MI5 was complicit in the abuse of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who says he was tortured while being held at sites in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Tom Porteous, from Human Rights Watch, said there should be a judicial inquiry.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are specific detailed and consistent allegations that have been made by my organisation, Human Rights Watch, by Amnesty International, by Reprieve, by other organisations and they need to be answered.</p>
<p>&#8220;Today again in the papers government ministers are here issuing blanket denials but not addressing the specific allegations and so there really is a need for a judicial inquiry.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Inquiry call</strong></p>
<p>Amnesty International UK campaigns director Tim Hancock described the Foreign Affairs Select Committee report as &#8220;yet another voice in a growing chorus demanding greater transparency over the UK&#8217;s involvement in &#8216;war on terror&#8217; human rights abuses&#8221;.</p>
<p>He also demanded a full, independent inquiry.</p>
<p>&#8220;The committee rightly asks some very pointed questions about the use of UK airspace and territory, particularly Diego Garcia, in US rendition operations,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Britain should stand firm in its opposition to torture, both through our words and our actions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Andrew Tyrie, the Tory MP who chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition, said an inquiry should be held immediately.</p>
<p>&#8220;Neither the investigation by the police into the Binyam Mohamed case nor the other civil actions brought should stand in the way of getting to the bottom of this,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is the only way to give the public confidence that we have got to the bottom of all of this, to draw a line under it and to move on.&#8221;</p>
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