The revelations will fuel the row surrounding official British knowledge of the use of torture to obtain intelligence from suspected insurgents and terrorists.
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The law lords have ruled that Abu Qatada can be sent back to Jordan to face trial by a military court on terrorism charges despite the well-documented use of torture by the Jordanian intelligence service, the GID.
As with the use of torture, the use of secret intelligence outside of the ordinary legal process makes it difficult even to discover the violation, much less challenge it legally.
9 P.M. (13); 10 P.M. (49) THE INTERROGATOR In this "Frontline" presentation, Ali H. Soufan, a former F.B.I. agent and the author of "The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al Qaeda," tells Martin Smith why he believes that the World Trade Center attacks could have been prevented and how the use of torture failed to produce actionable intelligence.
The government stands accused of seeking to conceal Britain's role in extraordinary rendition, ahead of the release of a declassified intelligence report that exposes the use of torture at US secret prisons around the world.
Given that the techniques were ineffective, the study says, the agency routinely misled Congress and the White House when it claimed that the use of torture did in fact contribute to intelligence victories.
In a report last month, Amnesty International gathered testimonies from multiple individuals on the use of torture by Burundi's police and intelligence forces against individuals detained for participating in the demonstrations.
Since the unrest began in April, there has been a spike in the use of torture by Burundi's police and intelligence forces against individuals detained for participating in the demonstrations, according to a report released by Amnesty International based on testimony from victims.
