A row over the detention and treatment of British resident Binyamin Mohamed, an Ethiopian citizen being held by U.S. authorities in Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta gulag, who, according to his U.S. military lawyer, has been beaten and is near death, may bring down the political fortunes of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, a strong supporter of Israel and close U.S.-British intelligence ties.

Mohamed's American military lawyer, as well as his British defense team, are demanding that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, headed by Miliband, turn over 42 classified documents that not only reveal how Mohamed was tortured, renditioned between Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco, and Guantanamo, but may also shed light on the British government's involvement in the kidnapping and torture.

WMR has learned that the CIA, with the support of the Obama administration, is threatening to release details of other British abductions and torture if London proceeds to reveal details of the kidnapping and torture of Mohamed.

Specifically, the CIA is in possession of potentially embarrassing details of the abduction and torture by Britain's MI-6 intelligence service of 28 Pakistanis abducted by British agents in Athens after the July 7, 2005 transit bombings in London. According to the Times of London, the Pakistanis were abducted from their homes in Athens and Ioannina, tortured at secret locations, and then dumped blindfolded on central Athens streets late at night.

At the time of the abductions and torture of the Pakistanis, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and the Greek conservative government of Costas Karamanlis vehemently denied abducting and torturing the Pakistanis. There were reports that the agents who kidnapped the Pakistanis spoke fluent Greek and were either MI-6 or Greek EYP agents.

Greek government denials aside, the authorities in Athens reportedly declared Nicholas "Nick" Langman, the MI-6 station chief at the British embassy persona non grata. The Greek Justice Ministry launched an investigation of the kidnapping and the Liberal Democratic Foreign Affairs spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, called for a British parliamentary investigation of the affair. Greek leftist parties indicated that the kidnapping of the Pakistanis was not the first such operation launched jointly by British and Greek intelligence agencies.

With suspicions growing that Miliband and Prime Minister Gordon Brown are involved in a major intelligence cover-up, any U.S. disclosures about Britain's role in renditions and torture, violations of international and European Union law, could result in a further erosion of support for Labor in Britain and the battered conservative government in Athens. If the British government reveals details of Mohamed's rendition and torture by the Americans, it can be expected that there will a mutually-assured destruction campaign waged between Washington and London.