Eight men freed from Guantanamo Bay are suing the British Secret Services for millions, the Daily Mail can reveal today. They have issued writs against MI5 and MI6 in a claim for damages that would fall on the taxpayer. One of the men said they will argue that Britain was complicit in their illegal abduction, treatment and interrogation. He said the eight - five Britons and three foreign nationals living here - were put on CIA "torture flights" to the prison camp in U.S.-occupied Cuba. Two separate writs name "The Security Services", "The Secret Intelligence Agency" and "The Attorney General" as the defendants. Two groups of former Guantanamo detainees are identified as claimants. The first writ was issued at the High Court in London by lawyers acting for Libyan Omar Deghayes, Jordanian Jamil el-Banna - both freed from Guantanamo last December - and Iraqi Bisher al Rawi, who was released earlier last year. The second writ names five Britons as claimants: Moazzam Begg, Richard Belmar and the so-called Tipton Three, Rhuhell Ahmed, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, who were freed in previous years. The three men from Tipton in the West Midlands launched a lawsuit in the U.S. courts two years ago suing their captors for allegedly violating their human and religious rights at Guantanamo. They demanded £5million each in damages from the then defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and ten military commanders. The U.S. Court of Appeal dismissed their action earlier this year but their American lawyers are now taking the case to the Supreme Court. In the latest British case, the taxpayer will lose out whatever the end result because the action is likely to be largely funded by legal aid. full text : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560627&in_page_id=1770
I hope these guys get there money. What happended to them was horrible. It's pretty scary thinking that at any time you can be arrested because you are a Muslim and an Arab.
I am afraid there will be blowback for years to come. Thousands of young men went "missing" from different cities in th US after 911. They were never found. It would result in blowback and revenge attacks for years to come...
Probably. Misinformed and violent people will automatically assume that some bullshit story about "missing people" and they'll lash out idiotically at anyone they can.