ONE IS TOO MANY
How many more parallel or echo Binyam Mohamed?
A Guantánamo detainee at the center of a long standoff between the United States and Britain was freed and returned to Britain on Monday after almost seven years in American custody.
The detainee, Binyam Mohamed, was captured in Pakistan in April 2002. American officials said he had been part of a conspiracy to detonate a dirty bomb on American soil, but all charges against him were eventually dismissed. He has said he was held for 18 months in Morocco, where he says he was tortured, then was moved to Afghanistan and then to the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Source
More:
Dressed in casual clothes, Mohamed, 30, landed in a small plane at RAF Northolt airbase in northwest London and was escorted across the runway by officials.
He was then detained by police officers under anti-terror laws and questioned for nearly five hours before being freed and told he would face no further action.
“He’s now been released full stop, that’s the end of it,” a Metropolitan Police spokesman told AFP. Source
And a statement which cuts to the quick (emphasis added).
Binyam Mohamed, 30, walked unaided from the chartered jet that landed at RAF Northolt shortly after 1pm after being held at the controversial US military base in Cuba for four years.
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“I am not asking for vengeance; only that the truth should be made known, so that nobody in the future should have to endure what I have endured.” Source
This bloody jail must stop now. I was close to this prison a few weeks ago in Cuba, Its miserable! See you
Comment by jamaica — February 25, 2009 @ 2:16 am on Wednesday the 25th