Whistleblower Fightback

We received this note from our friends at Blairwatch:

Craig Murray* is to Defy Foreign Office threats, and publish "Murder in Samarkand".
Many of you will be aware that Craig Murray has been involved in torturous negotiations with the Foreign Office [FCO] in attempt to get is forthcoming book "Murder In Samarkand" cleared for publication.

As the process has dragged on it has become clear to Craig that the FCO is less interested in protecting National Security, than it's own embarrassment, and their intention is either to remove all content that might be of any interest to readers, or suppress publication entirely.
Earlier this week, Craig served notice on the FCO, that if they continued to drag their feet, and kept coming up with more obstacles, he would abandon attempts to negotiate the content of the book and reach agreement, and go ahead and publish without their agreement.

You can read the full discussion between the Foreign Office and Craig Murray at Blairwatch here. And all the documents are posted with links to the originals on Craig's site (Craig Murray) or the book is available to pre-order via Amazon here.

*Craig Murray was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing appalling human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of President Islam Karimov. In this candid memoir, he lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror. In Uzbekistan, the land of Alexander the Great and Tamburlaine, lurks one of the most hideous tyrannies on earth - one founded on cotton slavery and brutal torture. As neighbouring 'liberated' Afghanistan produces record levels of heroin, the Uzbek rulers cash in on massive trafficking.

When Craig Murray arrived in Uzbekistan, he was a young Ambassador with a brilliant career but after hearing accounts of dissident prisoners being boiled to death and innocent people being raped and murdered by agents of the state, he started to question both his role and that of his country in so-called 'democratising' states. When Murray decided to go public with his shocking findings, Washington and 10 Downing Street reached the conclusion that he had to go, so set about a vicious campaign to smear him as an acoholic sexual deviant with mental health problems. Nice eh?