Again, don't always believe Middle East Eye though they've been accurate in the past with some recent stories (meaning the Khashoggi story). I think this is saying, because a terrorist did not want to be tortured more, the prisoner said information linking al Qaeda to Saddam back in the early 2000s, information supposedly "not true". This if so would be a bombshell.
EXCLUSIVE: UK spy agencies knew source of false Iraq war intelligence was tortured
MI6 officer saw Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, who later falsely told interrogators of link between Iraq and al-Qaeda, being rendered to Egypt in sealed coffin
Tuesday 6 November 2018
British intelligence agencies fed questions to the interrogators of a captured terrorism suspect whom they knew was being seriously mistreated in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, and ministers then relied upon his answers to help justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Through a close analysis of redacted official documents, Middle East Eye has established that an MI6 officer was aware that CIA officers had placed Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi inside a sealed coffin at a US-run prison in Afghanistan. The officer had then watched as the coffin was loaded onto a truck and driven to an aircraft that was waiting to fly to Egypt.
In an incident report sent to MI6 headquarters in London, the officer and his colleagues reported that “we were tempted to speak out†at the treatment of Libi, but did not. “The event reinforced the uneasy feeling of operating in a legal wilderness,†they said.
Read more at: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-rendition-ibn-al-sheikh-al-libi-iraq-war-806970986
