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Craig John Murray (born 17 October 1958)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography )〕〔''Murder in Samarkand'' page 293〕 is a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, and was Rector of the University of Dundee (2007–10). While at the embassy in Tashkent, he accused the Karimov administration of human rights abuses, which he argued was a step against the wishes of the British government and the reason for his removal. Murray complained to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in November 2002, January or early February 2003, and in June 2004 that intelligence linking the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan to al-Qaeda was unreliable, immoral and illegal, as it was thought to have been obtained through torture. He described this as "selling our souls for dross". He was subsequently removed from his ambassadorial post on 14 October 2004. ==Background== Murray was born in West Runton, Norfolk, and grew up in neighbouring Sheringham. He was educated at Sheringham Primary and then at Paston School (now known as Paston College), an all-boys' state grammar school in North Walsham in Norfolk, where he had an undistinguished record. followed by the University of Dundee, where he studied Modern History, and to which, by his own account, he barely gained admission. Whilst at university he attended few lectures, instead reading voraciously to teach himself, and graduated in 1982 with an MA (Hons) 1st Class. During this period, he was a member of the Liberal Party. Having already been on the Students' Representative Council, Murray became President of Dundee University Students' Association, elected to this sabbatical office twice (1982–1983 and 1983–1984), an occurrence so unusual that the university court (the highest body) changed the rules to stop him running a third time. He spent seven years in total at the university, compared to a normal four for a Scottish first degree.〔 He joined HM Diplomatic Service through the 1984 Civil Service Open Competition. He had a number of overseas postings with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to Africa and to Europe. In London, he was appointed to the FCO's Southern European Department, as Cyprus desk officer, and later became head of the Maritime Section. In August 1991 he worked in the Embargo Surveillance Centre as the head of the FCO section. This job entailed monitoring the Iraqi government's attempts at smuggling weapons and circumventing sanctions. His group gave daily reports to Margaret Thatcher and John Major. In ''Murder in Samarkand'', he describes how this experience led him to disbelieve the claims of the UK and US governments in 2002 about Iraqi WMDs.〔Dirty Diplomacy, p 170〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Craig Murray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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