Comments on: Craig Murray Comment Spam

By: Mike Ford

Mike Ford — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:31:59 +0000

I’ve read the many posts regarding Craig Murray but, for all the personal attacks on this particular individual, I am unable to find in your discourse any sense of the true level of torture in Uzbekistan. I am able to identify the obvious hyperbolic rhetoric used by Mr Murray but is torture in Uzbeckistan “systemic”, as he suggests? Perhaps you could enlighten me with your expert knowledge of the region so that a fuller picture of this man’s increasingly public campaign in my home town can be assertained.
regards
Major Mike Ford (retired, Blackburn, UK)

By: Another Rovian Conspiracy - St Wendeler

Another Rovian Conspiracy - St Wendeler — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:44:20 +0000

H/T Registan.net

60 Minutes Rendition Story – Missing Info

I watched 60 minutes last Sunday and they featured this former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, seen here with Scott “The Chin” Pelley. Well, it turns out that this guy is a candidate for an MP slot in the UK.

By: Laurence

Laurence — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:47:31 +0000

Today’s New York Times has a defense of CIA’s “rendition” policy written by Michael Scheuer, who points out it originated with Sandy Berger in the Clinton administration. Here’s the link to the article. So don’t blame Karimov, blame Bill Clinton. I personally agree with the article’s implication that we could have arrested and tried Bin Laden and the others here in the USA–before 9/11–instead of letting him go to Afghanistan.

By: Jim in StL

Jim in StL — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:04:18 +0000

Sounds like Murray is doing the typical pandering to the paranoid. It’s hard to believe what people will believe!

By: Hulegu

Hulegu — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:59:56 +0000

Carpet-bagging is all part and parcel of Westminster politics, but how wil the burghers of Blackburn react to a candidate born and raised in Scotland, trained in the Foreign Office, and now resident in a very, very chi-chi part of West London?

At least when Martin Bell ousted Neil Hamilton in the Tatton constituency he was a well-respected, modest, self-effacing man, respected by all and sundry (or as modest as the BBC’s best known foreign correspondant, famous for wearing linen suits, can be.) Murray, on the otherhand, has over-played the victimisation card – and it’s not as if he didn’t know what he was letting himself in for.