A MAJOR report on the US security service’s use of ‘torture’ on terror suspects has concluded it had no part in the arrest of Blackburn terrorist turned supergrass Saajid Badat.

The investigation said CIA lied to Congress, the White House and Britain, as it tried to cover up the scale of global torture programme.

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The agency claimed information extracted under torture helped in eight major counter-terrorism operations, including thwarting a plot to attack Canary Wharf and Heathrow and leading to the capture of an accomplice of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber.

Tuesday’s report dismissed the CIA’s claim that Badat, shoe bomber Richard Reid’s accomplice, was captured because of its activities. It said he was arrested because of investigations by the British security services and other agencies., not because of intelligence obtained from torture.

The published version says nothing about what Tony Blair or Blackburn MP Jack Straw, then Foreign Secretary, knew about the CIA’s activities.

Badat was jailed for 13 years in 2005 after he admitted plotting to explode a shoe bomb on a transatlantic flight in December 2001 but changed his mind. Originally from Gloucester, He studied at the College of Islamic Knowledge and Guidance, in Moss Street, Little Harwood. Badat arrived in Blackburn in December 2001 and rose through the ranks of local mosques, becoming involved in terrorism after travelling.

He was arrested in November 2003after high-profile raids in Blackburn. In 2012, his sentence was cut to 11 years. and in 2014 he gave evidence leading to the US conviction for terror-related offences of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law.

Mr Straw has consistently denied any knowledge of torture despite a claim by Libyan Abdul Hakim Belhaj that he and MI6 helped arrange his and his wife’s rendition from China to Tripoli for torture in 2004. The case is currently going through the courts.