Coerced Confessions from the Suspects in the Latest Terror Plot?

We have heard  years of false allegations by governments in the worldwide “war on terror,” from U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s claim that “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla could be jailed without being charged and without access to an attorney, to bogus charges against a Muslim ice cream truck driver and his son in terrorist hotbed Lodi, California.  I have become somewhat skeptical of government’s claims of terrorist plots.  So, when the latest plot was uncovered, I was troubled a bit.  However, everyone seemed absolutely certain that we had luckily stumbled upon a true plot at mass descturction.  Maybe so.  But CNN, in an exclusive, reports that the lawyer for two of the suspects rounded up in a possible plot to bring down as many as 10 trans-Atlantic flights on Saturday criticized their treatment at the hands of British police. In an exclusive CNN interview, attorney Mudassar Irani listed a series of complaints, including the allegation that one of her clients had not received food and water for 26 hours. Police arrested 24 people in connection with the alleged terror plot, although one man was released after it was realized he was simply an innocent bystander, Rivers said. Although the names of many of the detainees have been confirmed by the Bank of England, which has frozen their accounts, Irani was unwilling to confirm the identities of her clients, referring to them by alphabetical letters assigned by police. She complained she was only able to meet with her clients for five minutes on Friday.   Click here for the full story.