The holding camp for Jihadist prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
The idea of natural justice demands that those who are imprisoned unlawfully or without good cause should have some sort of compensation is in theory a good one. However when this nominally sensible rule is smothered in excessive humanitarianism and foolishness, then grave injustices will occur. Injustices like this perhaps?
Feroz Abbasi is not a poor innocent soul who was picked up by mistake or fitted up by nasty spooks and soldiers. It was not in error that he was placed in the prison camp of Guantanamo Bay. He had been seen by an intelligence source attending an Al Qaida training camp in Afghanistan where had been sent by the hate-preacher Abu Hamza who was resident in Britain at the time.
It’s utter madness. Here is a person who, on a balance of probabilities basis, is guilty of at least sympathising with Islamic terror and who is attuned to the idea of Jihad, yet our legal system treats him as some sort of wounded innocent.
He was not put in Gitmo for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, he was put there because there was ample evidence that Abbasi was up to no good.
The Daily Telegraph said:
“The Government paid a suspected terrorist up to £1 million compensation even though Whitehall officials had been told that he had been at an al-Qaeda training camp planning attacks on Jewish and American targets.
Feroz Abbasi, who was captured by American forces in Afghanistan in 2001, was one of 16 detainees held at Guantánamo Bay who were paid £20 million in 2010 by the Government to settle claims of UK complicity in their rendition and detention.
Legal documents show that an al-Qaeda “supergrass” had informed security agencies in 2004 that Abbasi had been sent to Afghanistan by the extremist cleric Abu Hamza “to receive jihad training in support of al-Qaeda”.
Abbasi, 34, a former computer student from Croydon, south London, was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and released from Guantánamo in 2005.
The documents raise concerns about why the UK was prepared to pay compensation to Abbasi when they had hard evidence that he had been at the heart of a terrorist organisation which was planning attacks on the West.”
I can understand why the British Govt decided to cut their losses and pay up rather than run the risk of intelligence procedures and techniques in open court, but it still leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.
Somehow I don’t think that having one million pounds sterling in his back pocket is going to make Abbasi any less of a jihadi sympathising bearded savage and Gitmo may have been the best place for him and those like him.
Abbasi and other Jihadis were terrorist combatants and it may have worked out cheaper and more just had they been shot on the battlefield. They would not have been missed, at least not by civilised people anyway.
Link
Original Story from Daily Telegraph
Hat Tip
Jihad Watch
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/uk-government-paid-1000000-to-jihadi-seen-at-al-qaeda-terror-camp
