LONDON (AP) — A suicide bomber who attacked a military base in Iraq this week was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee freed in 2004 after Britain lobbied for his release, raising questions about the ability of security services to track the whereabouts of potential terrorists.
The Islamic State group identified the bomber as Abu Zakariya al-Britani, and two British security officials also confirmed the man was a 50-year-old Briton formerly known as Ronald Fiddler and as Jamal al-Harith.
He was one of 16 men paid a total of 10 million pounds (now worth $12.4 million) in compensation in 2010, when the British government settled a lawsuit alleging its intelligence agencies were complicit in the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, according to the officials.
Frontline just did a piece on one of the guys they stuck in Serbia.
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ReplyDeleteBunch of F*n Cowards! I had no idea this happened or that Britain was that liberal!
ReplyDeleteThis is a coincidence. Move along.
ReplyDeleteSee why these fools were in prison to start with, then the POS Obama lets them all go, that is, before he went to visit them on his visit to Cuba.
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ReplyDeleteThanks Obama! We all knew this would happen eventually. Complete moron.
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