By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally threatened the British government that Washington would stop collaborating with London on intelligence matters if the latter allowed the release of evidence on an alleged torture case. This has been revealed in London’s high court during the ongoing trial of Binyam Mohamed, a resident of Britain, who is was until recently imprisoned by US authorities at the Guantánamo Bay camp. Mr. Mohamed was abducted in 2002 by Pakistani authorities, who delivered him to US intelligence agents. The latter employed the controversial practice of extraordinary rendition and had Mr. Mohamed secretly imprisoned in Morocco and Afghanistan before taking him to Guantánamo. The Ethiopian-born Mohamed says he was brutally tortured while in Moroccan and US custody. But thethe Constitution. The complaint alleges a pattern of exclusion and harassment in connection with plaintiff's use of the prison law library at the Occoquan Facility at Lorton. Defendants are Martin Chuks Ezeagu, the Chief Librarian at the Occoquan Facility Law Library, and four administrators and supervisors allegedly responsible for providing inmates with adequate access to library facilities.[1] All of the defendants are sued in their individual and official capacities. For the reasons stated below, defendants' motion will be denied.

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In his amended complaint, plaintiff alleges that throughout his confinement from 1989 to 1991, defendant Ezeagu "consistently, and without cause, interfered with Plaintiff's access to the courts by continually berating and harassing Plaintiff in the law library, capriciously expelling and barring Plaintiff from the library, and confiscating Plaintiff's legal books,