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              De ambtenaar van de intelligentie eist de CIA in marteling in Oezbekistan complicit was
Dinsdag, 16 September, 2008 Door Neil Mackay | De CIA STUURDE ZIJN agenten in de martelings kamers van Oezbekistan om het misbruik van zogenaamde Islamitische terroristen waar te nemen, overeenstemmend aan een dissident lid van de Oezbekistaanse veiligheidsdiensten dat nu politiek asiel in het UK na vluchtend Tashkent zoekt. Ikrom Yakubov, een vroegere majoor in de Nationale Dienst van de Veiligheid (SNB), beschuldigde de CIA van betrokkenheid in martelingszittingen in de centrale Aziatische republiek in een exclusief gesprek met de Zondag kondigt aan, waarin hij een reeks opschrikkende eisen maakte. Deze omvatten eisen die: l Groot-Brittannië Richard Conroy, de coördinator van de V.N. in Oezbekistan, werd vermoord op de orden van Islam Karimov, de president van Oezbekistan. Karimov is beschreven als één van de slechtste dictators van de wereld en zijn regel, sinds 1991, is gekenmerkt door beweringen van marteling (met inbegrip van eisen dat de slachtoffers gekookte in leven) waren, media controle, valse verkiezingen en brutality tegen de pro-democratieactivisten van rechten van de mens organisaties en ; l een reeks bomaanslagen in het kapitaal, Tashkent, in Maart 2004 door SNB werd georganiseerd om regel en de helling van Karimov te verscherpen de dictatoriale de bedreiging van Islamitische verschrikkingsgroepen; l Karimov gaf opdracht tot de bekende slachting Andijan in Mei 2005, toen de Oezbekistaanse veiligheidskrachten op protesters in brand staken, die om het even wat doden tot 1500 mensen; l Karimov regime ontwierp uit routine onschuldige Moslims op lasten van betrokkenheid in verschrikking Islamist en uitgevonden valse verschrikkingsbedreigingen om zijn greep op het land te handhaven, en l de CIA gebruikte een geheime detentiefaciliteit in Oezbekistan waar de verdachten in de „oorlog op verschrikking“ van rond de wereld aan zijn gemartelde door ondervragers SNB werden genomen. Yakubov gevluchte Oezbekistan en gezocht asiel in het UK deze maand. Craig Murray, de Groot-Brittannië vroegere ambassadeur aan Oezbekistan en een ruwe criticus van het regime Karimov, hebben vouched voor de goede trouw van Yakubov, eisend is hij zekere van zijn achtergrond als een intelligentieambtenaar en dat hij het verhaal van Yakubov geloofwaardig vindt. Yakubov viel uit gunst met SNB na schrijvend een reeks officiële rapporten voor de Oezbekistaanse Nationale Veiligheidsraad die van de intelligentie diensten kritiek werden geacht. hij was die later van het spioneren voor Amerika en tegen 2007 wordt beschuldigd gearresteerd en werd werd gemarteld met afstraffingen . By 2008, and now working with human rights groups, Yakubov left the country and, from Turkey, wrote a series of anonymous articles criticising Karimov and the intelligence services, which he posted on the internet. Yakubov says the SNB responded by emailing death threats to him, saying they knew his real identity. His cousin was subsequently killed, and Yakubov is sure that SNB agents were responsible for his death, as threats had also been made against his family. Yakubov’s most powerful claim relates to a meeting in 2002 with an American official whom Yakubov’s chief in the SNB described as a CIA agent. “The man introduced himself to me as Andrew,” said Yakubov. “We drove some 15 kilometres from Tashkent to the town of Chirchik, where the SNB has a secret detention centre located underground. We entered the jail and there was an SNB officer torturing a man. Andrew and I watched for about 10 minutes. We were both present while this man was being beaten around the neck with a stick. “The victim had been captured by the Americans in Afghanistan and taken to Uzbekistan for interrogation by the SNB. He was supposed to be an Islamist. Andrew then went into the administration room and came out 20 minutes later with a bag full of papers.” Yakubov said the American did not protest or urge the torturer to stop beating the prisoner. Instead, Yakubov said, Andrew told sexual jokes and taught him to swear in English. “He certainly did not appear upset by what he witnessed,” Yakubov said. Yakubov also claimed that Conroy, a senior British UN official based in Tashkent, was killed on the orders of the government because he was aware that senior officials were involved in international drug trafficking. Conroy died when his plane crashed in January 2004 in the Uzbek capital. Yakubov says he was told by a friend, also a member of the intelligence services that a bomb was placed on the plane by the SNB. According to Yakubov, a series of bomb attacks in Tashkent in 2004, which the government blamed on Islamist suicide bombers, was organised by the SNB. Yakubov said: “The intention was to show the world and Uzbekistan that only Karimov could guarantee peace and safety. It helped him maintain power.” Yakubov added that this policy also involved the SNB “setting up” fake Islamic terror groups to keep public panic ramped up. Ironically, in 2005 Hazel Blears, then a Home Office minister, invoked the Tashkent bombings during a debate on government anti-terror measures. Craig Murray, ambassador to Tashkent at the time of the bombings, said evidence he saw with his own eyes did not point towards Islamist suicide attacks. He claimed the alleged sites of the bombings showed no craters “or even a crack in paving stones”. The body of one suicide bomber was unmarked. Murray informed London about his findings and the Joint Terrorism Assessment Centre agreed that there were “serious flaws in the Uzbek government account”. Murray added: “I concluded that these events were a series of extrajudicial killings, covered by a highly controlled and limited agent-provocateur operation.” The Andijan massacre was also ordered by Karimov to terrify the populace, Yakubov said, and prevent any popular pro-democracy movement developing. Yakubov, who is awaiting interview by British intelligence and an immigration hearing, insists he would be either killed or tortured and jailed indefinitely if he were forced to return. He also fears assassination attempts by the SNB while in the UK. He added: “I am a dissident not just because I believe in democracy and human rights, but also because as an intelligence officer, I saw my colleagues fabricating cases against ordinary Muslims, making them out to be terrorists and religious radicals.” Murray has spoken to a number of high-level contacts in Uzbekistan, and senior opposition figures in exile, who he says all vouched for Yakubov as an intelligence officer. Murray added: ”Personally, I believe what Ikrom Yakubov is saying. His account comes over as naturalistic to me. Funnily enough, he even told me that he’d been involved in setting up a demonstration against me in Tashkent in 2004, which was organised because of statements I’d made about human rights abuses. He also says that he was keeping tabs on my love life while I was there.” Have Your Say: Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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