UK Compensates Tortured Detainee, Two Decades Too Late
The UK government is reportedly settling with Abu Zubaydah, a man held without charge in Guantánamo Bay for nearly two decades, and who endured horrific torture outlined in the Senate Intelligence Committee's 2014 report. While the FT frames this as a bureaucratic resolution, it neatly sidesteps the complicity of Western governments in the US's extrajudicial rendition and torture program. This
isn't just about 'compensation'; it’s an admission, buried in legalese, of crimes against humanity. It raises questions about how many more such settlements are quietly processed to keep the full scale of this 'war' conveniently out of the public eye. One might almost forgive them for hoping we've all forgotten. Meanwhile, the architects of these programs—Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their British
enablers—remain celebrated pundits, offering 'expert' advice on ongoing conflicts, seemingly unburdened by the consequences of their past actions. The price of an innocent man's stolen life and sanity is just another line item on a government balance sheet, decades after the fact.