Monday, October 31, 2011

Binyam Mohamed: Terror suspect pocketed £1m in compensation over torture claims

Ethiopian-born Mohamed arrived in the UK in 1994, as a schoolboy seeking asylum. He traveled to Afghanistan in 2001. The US alleged that he received ...

(31st October 2011, Daily Mail)--Standing at a bus stop, he is looking forward to an afternoon shopping with a male friend.  Although he returns home empty-handed he could have embarked on a lavish spending spree with ease.

For this is former terror suspect Binyam Mohamed and money has been no object for some time. The 33-year-old has received £1million in compensation after claiming he was tortured with the complicity of the British security services at the U.S.’s infamous Guantanamo Bay naval base.

In March this year he paid £250,000 in cash for a terrace house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms in Norbury, South London –a short distance from the Croydon Mosque and Islamic Centre.

Ethiopian-born Mohamed arrived in the UK in 1994, as a schoolboy seeking asylum. He travelled to Afghanistan in 2001. The U.S. alleged that he received paramilitary training at an Al Qaeda camp and plotted to detonate a radioactive bomb in America.

He was arrested in 2002 at Karachi airport in Pakistan as he tried to board a London-bound flight using a fake British passport. FULL ARTICLE AT Daily Mail »

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