[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said Tuesday.

Manchester Chief Constable Michael Todd, 50, was found dead in Snowdonia, about 240 miles northwest of London, Deputy Chief Constable Dave Whatton said. He had been missing since going out for a walk Monday during his day off.

The association gave him the task of looking into accusations that Britain allowed the CIA to use the country's airports to fly terrorism suspects to other countries without any extradition hearings, a clandestine procedure known as "extraordinary rendition."

Todd's investigation concluded last June that there was no evidence to back the claim. Last month, however, Britain admitted one of its remote outposts in the Indian Ocean had twice been used by the United States as a refueling stop for the secret transfer of two terrorism suspects.

[I_Like_Plants]

nice to know my country is the world's bully.

I really need to work on getting out of here.

[Ainan]

Don't mess with big brother, they should have known better...


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')r David Kelly said in February that if Iraq was invaded he would "probably be found dead in the woods", the Hutton inquiry heard today.

David Broucher, a permanent representative on the convention on UN disarmament in Geneva, said that he had taken Dr Kelly's comment to be a throwaway remark at the time.

However, in the light of Dr Kelly's apparent suicide last month, when his was found in woods near his Oxfordshire home, Mr Broucher realised the remark could be significant.

He met Dr Kelly just once in Geneva on February 27 when they discussed Iraq's compliance or non-compliance with the convention on biological weapons.

"As Dr Kelly was leaving I said to him what will happen if Iraq is invaded," Mr Broucher told the inquiry.

"And his reply was - which I took at the time to be a throwaway remark - 'I will probably be found dead in the woods'."

[auscanman]

Geez, well if I ever know something TPTB would want to keep from the masses I sure as hell won't be going out for a walk on my own in the UK! MI6 are some nasty fuckers.

[threadbear]

Score another point for the shadow govt! A gangland slaying and the media fails to connect the bodies, let alone the dots.

[RedStateGreen]

I'm so surprised.

[keehah]

Don't mess with big brother, they should have known better...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')ary Condit, Democrat Congressman, was indeed a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on INTELLIGENCE