Guantanamo inmates set to receive payouts of up to £1m

[kpete]

Source: Independent UK

Guantanamo inmates set to receive payouts of up to £1m

British former inmates of Guantanamo Bay are to set to receive large payments from the Government to drop claims that British secret agents knew they were being tortured.

Ministers are expected to announce today that a settlement has been reached with at least seven men in a combined pay-off likely to run into millions of pounds. One of the former detainees could receive compensation worth around £1m, ITV News reported last night.

They claimed that agents both from MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their degrading treatment by turning a blind eye to their "rendition" to the United States detention camp and to the torture of some of them.

Allegations made by the former detainees include that some of them were subjected to the controversial practice of waterboarding. One claims to have lost the sight in one eye after it was rubbed with a rag soaked in pepper spray.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/guantanamo-inmates-set-to-receive-payouts-of-up-to-1631m-2135132.html

[Frisbee]

1. Ah yes, enough money makes everything OK.

And I though * said we only waterboarded two people?

[goforit]

2. Will this KARMA haunt the US SUPREME COURT???

[lovuian]

4. oh ya and the Department of Justice

Aschcroft and Gonzalez

I think Europe is ticked off about the derivitives and that was Bush and company

[lovuian]

3. THIS WAS SO WRONG ...Britain knows it was TORTURE

they shouldn't have done it in the first place
at least they admitting wrong

[rhett o rick]

5. Fantastic use of tax dollars. nm

[Solly Mack]

6. k/r

[LiberalLovinLug]

7. Makes me feel sorry for the ones with no hope of compensation

Many innocent taxi drivers or farmers or whatever that were sold as taliban collaborators by war lords to the US military, and were tortured for years and finally have been or will be let go. They will return to countries, unlike Britain, without a modern judicial system and have no recourse. In fact many will be persecuted further by UScorp "friendly" governments.