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[FF Editorial: If anyone believes that MI 5 was totally blind-sided by the CIA, they must be naive or fools. The British campaign in Malaya against the Commiunists were brutal and many techniques of counter-insurgency warfare that are applied throughoutn the world today were derived from this campaign in Malaya from 1948 to the 1960s.] 

LONDON --- United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, according to the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5.

Eliza Manningham-Buller, who retired in 2007 and is now a member of the House of Lords, said Tuesday that the U.S. deliberately suppressed details of its harsh handling of some detainees, including accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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By Patrick O’Connor – WSWS.org

The reaction of governments around the world to the murder of Hamas member Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month underscores the extent to which basic precepts of international law have been torn up under the “war on terror”. As far as the US government and its allies are concerned, extra-judicial executions and so-called targeted killings now constitute a legitimate state activity and do not warrant comment, let alone condemnation.

While the Israeli government has refused to confirm or deny any involvement, its intelligence agency, Mossad, is widely understood to be directly responsible for the Dubai operation. The Obama administration has maintained a strict silence over the affair, while the governments of Britain, Australia, France, Germany and Ireland have merely issued pro forma protests over the doctoring of their passports. None has condemned Mabhouh’s murder.

The assassination was a cold-blooded operation, planned down to the last detail. According to Dubai police, 27 men and women were involved in the preparation which culminated in Mabhouh being injected with a muscle relaxant drug, succinylcholine, then suffocated with a pillow. The killers reportedly left behind medicine for high blood pressure in order to give the initial appearance of a natural death, hung a “do not disturb” card on their victim’s hotel room door and fled Dubai before the authorities were notified after Mabhouh’s wife was unable to telephone her husband.