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	Craig Murray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murray was educated at a British state school, followed by the University of Dundee, where he graduated in 1982 with a MA (Hons) 1st Class in Modern History.
		In October 2002 Murray made a controversial speech at a human rights conference in Tashkent, in which he claimed that "Uzbekistan is not a functioning democracy" and the boiling to death of two members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, "is not an isolated incident."
		Murray was removed from his post in October 2004, shortly after a leaked report in the Financial Times quoted him as claiming that MI6 used intelligence provided by Uzbek authorities through torture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Craig_Murray (1142 words)

	Murray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murray is a common variation of the word Moray, an anglicisation of the Medieval Gaelic word Muireb (or Moreb); the b here was pronounced as v, hence the Latinization to Moravia.
		The Murray spelling is no longer used for the geographical area, which is called Moray, but it became the commonest form of the surname, especially among Scottish emigrants, to the extent that the surname Murray is now much more common than the original surname Moray.
		Division of Murray, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murray (586 words)

	Craig Murray Speaks Out While He Can - Global News on the World Crisis Web
		Murray’s detractors have dismissed him as a loose cannon whose sanity and motivation ought to be questioned.
		Murray has enlisted the help of Gareth Peirce, the leading human rights lawyer, who has represented the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four, to sue the Foreign Office for damages over false allegations that he demanded sex for visas, drank to excess and drove an embassy car down a flight of steps.
		Murray is relying on the goodwill of Peirce and other lawyers, who have agreed to represent him pro bono, to pursue his case against the Foreign Office.
	www.world-crisis.com /news/1015_0_1_0_M (1237 words)

	Craig Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Tashkent and a fierce critic of President Karimov's regime, tells RFE/RL that in the fight against dissent, the Uzbek regime is the most brutal among all Central Asian countries and even harsher than Turkmenistan.
		Craig Murray's gravest sin was to go public about the fact that both the US and the UK governments were happily using information gained under torture from unfortunate Uzbeks identified - usually falsely - by the regime as terrorists.
		Murray makes the point that while waging a war in Iraq ostensibly to remove the tyrant Saddam Hussein and his appalling abuse of his own people, both the US and the UK are happily cohabiting with another regime in the area, namely Uzbekistan, whose persecution of its citizens was, and remains, just as savage.
	www.craigmurray.co.uk (5146 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| The envoy who said too much
		Murray was determined not to let the regime's abuses be drowned out by the country's newfound strategic importance.
		Murray is in no doubt, friends say, that the FCO investigation was aimed at discrediting him because of the unwanted attention his public comments was bringing to Uzbekistani human-rights abuses.
		Murray's great sin, in the eyes of the FCO, may be that he chose to live the life of a typical expat in the former Soviet Union.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1261480,00.html (2846 words)

	EurasiaNet Human Rights - British Envoy Craig Murray’s Speech Reverberates in Uzbekistan
		Ambassador Murray said: "Uzbekistan is not a functioning democracy, nor does it appear to be moving in the direction of democracy.
		Most of Murray’s statements are common currency among foreign diplomats and businessmen in the privacy of their homes and workplaces.
		Murray in effect hamstrung himself, say experts, compromising the rest of his work in the country.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/rights/articles/eav011403.shtml (1179 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Politics Report
		Craig Murray insists he did not leak the telegram.
		The Foreign Office said in a statement that Mr Murray had been withdrawn not on disciplinary, but on operational grounds, and the charge of politicisation of the Foreign Office and the suppression of open discussion is completely without foundation.
		Mr Murray remains a member of the diplomatic service and will be allocated new duties "in due course", said the Foreign Office.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/today/reports/politics/craigmurray_20041015.shtml (550 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Former British envoy is suspended
		Craig Murray, 45, was recalled from his post in the capital Tashkent this week.
		Mr Murray said he became a "victim of conscience" after a memo in which he claimed MI6 had used the information was leaked to a newspaper last week.
		Mr Murray was summoned back to London in August 2003 and presented with 18, mostly baseless, allegations about his behaviour and given a week to resign, he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3750370.stm (612 words)

	Uzbekistan: Craig Murray interviewed
		Craig Murray, Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan, has been portrayed in the media as a colourful and dotty rogue with a penchant for bars, girls, Range-Rovers and outrageous breaches of diplomatic protocol.
		Craig Murray I’d come from Ghana, which moved from dictatorship to democracy in my time and held an election which the opposition won.
		Craig Murray was interviewed in London by Irena Maryniak.
	www.indexonline.org /en/news/articles/2005/2/uzbekistan-craig-murray-interviewed.shtml (2383 words)

	Uzbekistan: Interview With Former British Ambassador Craig Murray - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Murray was suspended from his post in October 2004 and has now taken severance pay -- moves the British Foreign Office has said are not connected with his outspoken views.
		Murray: I think that under this government Britain has moved away from the basic principles that governed foreign policy for many years, in particular support for the United Nations, support for the role of international law.
		Murray: There are individual cases of people who would be in prison today and possibly would be dead today if we hadn't managed to act and intervene in their cases in Uzbekistan.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/2/8EC07667-97C5-47CE-9996-36A072DADC83.html (1369 words)

	EurasiaNet Civil Society - Uzbekistan: Britain's Former Envoy Speaks Out About Rights Abuses
		Craig Murray had harsh words, too, for the United States, saying it was helping prop up a brutal regime.
		Craig Murray may be one of Britain’s least diplomatic diplomats in recent memory.
		Murray says he felt it was his duty, too, to expose what he called the Uzbek regime’s "extreme and all-pervasive" brutality.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/civilsociety/articles/pp021905.shtml (851 words)

	G. Craig Murray
		Murray, G., and Reuter, K. Children's acquisition of categories and the implications for research in the development of classification schemes.
		Murray, G., and Green, R. Lexical knowledge and human disagreement on a WSD task.
		Oard, Soergel, Doermann, Huang, Murray, Wang, Ramabhadran, Franz, Gustman, Mayfield, Kharevych, and Strassel.
	www.glue.umd.edu /~gcraigm/resume (645 words)

	Craig Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'''Craig Murray''' (born 17 October 1958) was a British diplomat.
		Murray was educated at a British state school, followed by the University of Dundee.
		Murray countered that he was a "victim of conscience".
	craig-murray.area51.ipupdater.com (700 words)

	U.S. needs some brave ambassadors like Craig Murray \| The Progressive
		Murray has been an outspoken critic of Uzbekistan dictator Islam Karimov—and U.S. and U.K. indulgence of the tyrant—ever since Murray’s stint as ambassador from 2002 to 2004.
		One of Murray’s noteworthy achievements during his tenure was to order a British Embassy report on the human rights situation in the country, which found that at least two prisoners had been boiled to death by the Uzbek government.
		In contrast to Murray’s outspokenness, the U.S. ambassador to Uzbekistan, Jon Purnell, warned Uzbek activists in 2004 not to ask him “political questions.” When I visited Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt in 2002, I found U.S. diplomats, including ambassadors, bending over backward to justify authoritarian practices in their host countries.
	progressive.org /mag_apb010305 (550 words)

	Democracy Now! \| EXCLUSIVE: Ex-British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray on Why He Defied UK Foreign Office by ...
		CRAIG MURRAY: Well, I should say that one thing, which completely astonished me, was, as we went into the Iraq war, I saw George Bush on CNN, making a speech the day the real fighting started, where he said we are going in basically to dismantle the torture chambers and the rape rooms.
		CRAIG MURRAY: I said, effectively, that Uzbekistan is morally beyond the pale, that we shouldn’t be treating it as an ally, and we certainly shouldn’t be cooperating with the Uzbek security services.
		CRAIG MURRAY: I think it’s just what any decent person would do, I mean, when you come across people being boiled and their fingernails pulled out or having their children raped in front of them, you just can't go along with it and sleep at night.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=06/01/19/1452237 (6297 words)

	Ex-ambassador comes fifth in election in UK Foreign Secretary's seat whilst trying to highlight alleged torture in ...
		Murray was attempting to bring about public debate and public knowledge of Straw's alleged complicity in Uzbek CIA torture.
		Craig Murray was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan in 2002 and 2003.
		Craig Murray's Blackburn campaign received widespread media attention around the world, although coverage was more limited in the UK (see below for links to some articles covering the Craig Murray campaign).
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Ex-ambassador_comes_fifth_in_election_in_UK_Foreign_Secretary%27s_seat_whilst_trying_to_highlight_alleged_torture_in_Uzbekistan (671 words)

	The Craig Murray Controversy - thinking-east.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Craig Murray, 46, served as the United Kingdom's ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 until he was discharged in 2004.
		Craig Murray first spoke out about Uzbekistan in late 2002, nearly a year BEFORE the charges were made.
		Craig Murray put a prestigious career on the line, in order to stand up for the rights and freedoms that we in the West claim to hold so dear.
	www.thinking-east.net /site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119 (8492 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Report praises suspended diplomat
		Craig Murray highlighted the case of the imprisonment of the mother of a man apparently tortured to death with boiling water in 2002.
		The annual FCO report on human rights says the dead man Muzafar Avazov's mother, Fatima Mukadirova, was subsequently imprisoned "we believe...for publicising the case of her son".
		Mr Murray claims he was recalled from his Tashkent posting because he criticised the use by the UK of intelligence obtained under torture in the country.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4000089.stm (501 words)

	UK Indymedia - Neocon blog launches smear campaign against Craig Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Craig Murray was recalled from his post in October 2004 after a confidential memo he wrote, condemning British and US complicity in torture in Uzbekistan, was leaked to the Financial Times.
		One case Murray highlighted was that of a political dissident boiled to to death by the Uzbek secret services.
		Yet Craig Murray began speaking out about torture nearly a year before the bogus charges were made, and he has continued to do so long after the charges were shown to be bogus and dropped.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2005/04/308370.html (559 words)

	Empire Burlesque - Leaked UK Secrecy Act Documents from Craig Murray - UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Craig Murray and former UK diplomat Brian Barder are having a very interesting debate on the leak.
		Craig Murray, the British ambassador to Uzbekistan during the early days of the "war on terror," has a story to tell about the situational ethics involved in the shadowy battle against the freedom hatin' Muslims.
		Craig Murray was the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, until his complaints and protest at the use of intelligence gained by torture got too much for Jack Straw and the Foreign Office, who set about attempting to unsuccessfully smear him, and to boot him from office.
	chris-floyd.com /telegrams/feed (10313 words)

	Foreign Correspondent - 29/03/2005: Uzbekistan
		MURRAY: I left the house that evening at three o’clock but that morning, a few hours later, the body of his grandson was dumped on the doorstep.
		Murray knows he’s unlikely to win a seat here in Westminster but for him it’s more about spreading the message, that the west is paying too high a price for bad intelligence on Islamic fundamentalism.
		MURRAY: Torture breeds hatred, ill-treatment, repression breeds hatred and because of our short-sighted policy in central Asia, that hatred is directed not just at Karimov but at the west who is seen as his close supporters so really we’re creating terrorism.
	www.abc.net.au /foreign/content/2005/s1335846.htm (2259 words)

	Craig Murray - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Most recently, Craig Murray was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004.
		Craig Murray was born in West Runton in October 1958 and educated at Sheringham Primary and Paston Grammar schools.
		In Autumn 1998 Craig Murray was the UK Representative at the Sierra Leone Peace talks held in Togo, Liberia and Sierra Leone, including direct negotiation with the RUF terrorist leadership.
	www.craigmurray.org.uk /craig_murray.html (424 words)

	BHHRG
		Mr Murray was accused by the British Foreign Office of various acts of misconduct involving drunken behaviour in the embassy and the improper issuing of visa applications, offences for which he has since been cleared.
		Mr Murray’s outspoken criticism of the government to whom he was accredited as a diplomat was not quite the lonely breach with a long tradition of diplomatic non-interference (at least publicly) into the affairs of the host nation as often alleged.
		Craig Murray also criticizes the West’s policies giving him extra kudos with anti-war activists and ensuring that his anti-Uzbek allegations reach a set of sympathetic ears.
	www.bhhrg.org /CountryReport.asp?CountryID=23&ReportID=243&ChapterID=751&next=next&keyword= (2087 words)

	Craig Murray - Damning documentary evidence unveiled. Dissident bloggers in coordinated exposé of UK government lies ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Foreign Office has demanded that Craig Murray remove all references to two especially damning British government documents, indicating that our government was knowingly receiving information extracted by the Uzbeks through torture, and return every copy that he has in his possession.
		Your record of our meeting with HMA Tashkent recorded that Craig had said that his understanding was that it was also an offence under the UN Convention on Torture to receive or possess information under torture.
		Should Craig Murray find himself prosecuted for this, please do not hesitate in contacting me for (literally) a few quid towards the cost of his defence.
	www.craigmurray.co.uk /archives/2005/12/damning_documen.html (4022 words)

	::: A STRANGE PICKET IN TASHKENT: PRO-AMERICAN IMPOSTOR TRIES TO DISHONOUR BRITISH AMBASSADOR :::
		As is well-known Murray upset the regime of Islam Karimov with his blunt remarks on torture.
		Murray sent numerous reports to London about human rights abuses, and his dispatches became increasingly heated during the build-up to the Iraqi invasion.
		And Craig Murray was definitely stoking that fire.
	www.muslimuzbekistan.com /eng/ennews/2003/10/ennews31102003.html (777 words)

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