His Travails Are Ended And Once More He's A Man Free To Appreciate The Liberty Offered By His Adopted Country.

[sandyRoe]

Could he be employed somehow to give the lie to the propaganda of the proponents of the Calphate?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35085957

[mikey4444]

This innocent man may indeed be what is needed sandy, and well done to him so far.

[Old_Geezer]

He is free to take such a role should he wish to. But it seems he has little experience of the Caliphate; but experience of being detained for being involved. Something for which no evidence has been offered and apparently torture techniques in which the US and the UK are claimed to be involved in. His outspoken condemnation of extremists is to be applauded though.

[mikey4444]

adonissmithson...he was tortured for 14 years and even the CIA couldn't get an answer to that question !

[mikey4444]

Maybe, although nobody seriously believes that he wasn't tortured.

But what is beyond any doubt whatsoever, is that he was held without charge or trial for 14 years. Something that would not be allowed in Britain, or even the United States.

[KARL]

Adonissmithson, your statement makes me uncomfortable, the man was "rendered", imprisoned and isolated, all against USA, UK and other law. Kindly explain to me why you find it necessary to exhibit such pointedly and determinedly antagonistic sentiment toward someone whom you clearly don't know at all apart from what you may have come across in the media ?

[anotheoldgit]

KARL

/// Kindly explain to me why you find it necessary to exhibit such pointedly and determinedly antagonistic sentiment toward someone whom you clearly don't know at all apart from what you may have come across in the media ? ///

And I suppose you know him intimately do you?

[bhg481]

Whether or not KARL knows him is irrelevant

[anotheoldgit]

What the BBC conveniently failed to tell us, that it was all the fault of the Labour Government at the time. Why didn't they demand his release?

/// His conviction that Tony Blair and Jack Straw, Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary at the time, must have been aware that he was being tortured, describing how British agents who witnessed his treatment arrived at Bagram on a Government flight with Blair. ///

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3357640/Jihadis-hell-Britain-Shaker-Aamer-says-UK-Muslims-dare-not-interviews-release.html

/// He thanked The Mail on Sunday and his other supporters for keeping the 'flame' of his morale alive. ///

/// In his MoS interviews, Aamer speaks of the moment he realised he was home, when his plane door opened, and he told the policeman next to him: 'That is my first breath of freedom.' ///

/// He added: 'Everything looked British. I was overwhelmed.' ///

Perhaps he should now be thankful he is British by not trying to claim compensation from his fellow countrymen?

From what it is reported regarding his thoughts on extremists, perhaps he would be a prime candidate to set up some kind of "British Muslims against Extreme Muslims" movement?

[mikey4444]

Well said bhg481 !

[Svejk]

'Well said' ??? Lolz.

[Svejk]

'Well said' ??? Lolz.

[Svejk]

These threads become bizarre.

[anotheoldgit]

bhg481

/// Whether or not KARL knows him is irrelevant ///

It is when he accuses others of not knowing about such matters at all apart from what they may have come across in the media.

Please tell me where he happened to get his knowledge from if he doesn't know him, from the media itself maybe?

[retrocop]

What travails have ended? :To labour: to suffer the pains of childbirth etc

[bhg481]

I'm don't usually have any sympathy with compensation claimers but I make an exception in this case. You only get one life; he's had 14years of it taken away (and, possibly, tortured into the bargain). The Americans base their law on the Magna Carta and have broken their own rules by not trying him. Disgraceful.

[anotheoldgit]

Waits for "WELL SAID AOG" from mikey.

[Svejk]

Wouldn't surprise me if KARL was very well acquainted with shaky.