Craig Murray is a historian who was sacked as a British ambassador because he became a human rights activist. He went on George Galloway's show (on Youtube as well as other services) to tell a shocking story about human rights abuse.
Murray is apparently being investigated as a potential terrorist (he's been sent a letter telling him so) and the police have taken his laptop. Subsequently his Twitter (or X) account was hacked in a very suspicious manner. Whoever did it changed his password and identity details. You are not supposed to be able to change the password and contact details at the same time.
"This must have been done as an inside job or by someone with a backdoor," Murray told George Galloway.
Since the police had possession of Craig Murray's laptop and phone, both containing the Twitter password, he says there was every reason to believe that this hack was the work of the security services.
Asked by Galloway why he thought the security services were interested in him, Murray replied that his lawyers had asked why and received no response. He added that he had recently been questioned by the police for an hour and the subjects in a roughly 50/50 ratio were his support for Wikileaks and Palestine.
"The idea that a former British ambassador is under investigation for terrorism is really something that is hard to believe," Craig Murray added. "That's the topsy turvy world that we have moved into."
Jonathan Brind