The Government has rejected parliamentary proposals for tough new laws to stamp out the UK's involvement in the kidnap and unlawful transfer of terror suspects to third-party states, The Independent has learnt.
The Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, has written to the chairman of an influential parliamentary committee refusing to accept recommendations to outlaw rendition.
The draft measures, drawn up by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition (APPG), are mostly targeted at the airline industry, but Mr Straw says that such proposals would be too "burdensome" and would impose disproportionate obligations on private companies.'
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Monday, February 01, 2010
Straw Faces Cover-up Claims Over Libya Oil Deal
The calls in question were made weeks before Straw reversed a government move to block the release of a man charged with the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people.
Reports on Sunday said Straw, a former defense minister, faces cover-up charges over his intransigence about calls he received from Sir Mark Allen, an ex-MI6 spy turned consultant to the British oil giant, BP.'
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Revealed: Jack Straw’s Secret Warning to Tony Blair on Iraq
The letter, a copy of which is published for the first time today, warned the prime minister that the case for military action in Iraq was of dubious legality and would be no guarantee of a better future for Iraq even if Saddam Hussein were removed.
It was sent 10 days before Blair met George Bush, then the US president, in Crawford, Texas, in April 2002. The document clearly implies that Blair was already planning for military action even though he continued to insist to the British public for almost another year that no decision had been made.'
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Jack Straw Faces Iraq Inquiry Grilling Over Tony Blair Letter
The former foreign secretary Jack Straw is to face potentially explosive questioning at the Iraq inquiry next month over a private letter he sent to Tony Blair on the eve of the invasion, urging the prime minister to look at options apart from pressing ahead with British military involvement in the attack.'
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