Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Freed, British Detainee Details Abuses

Photo: Binyam Mohamed: He traveled to Afghanistan before 9/11 and was imprisoned in four countries. Reprieve/ap/file

From Christian Science Monitor:

Binyam Mohamed returned to London Monday a free man after spending the past seven years in a tangle of military prison camps, where he claims he was tortured.

LONDON - A British resident, once accused of plotting with Al Qaeda to detonate a radiological "dirty bomb," is a free man and is now calling for an investigation into his alleged torture at the behest of the US government.

Binyam Mohamed was released from a cell at the Guantánamo terror prison camp in Cuba early Monday, where he had been held since September 2004. He was flown by private jet to a British military base near London, where he met with his legal team and doctors.

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My Comment: Let us see .... he is a person who was arrested with a false pass port in Pakistan. He is linked to men who were determined to develop a dirty bomb. Hmmmmm .... he does have a credibility problem. But then again .... so does the government's case.

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