UK Pays 'Terror Suspect' Tortured by US, Ignores Its Own Complicity
RT reports that the UK settled with Abu Zubaydah, who endured torture at the hands of the CIA, for London's alleged role in his rendition and confinement. (One might call it 'facilitating freedom' for torturers.) This comes just as the US, with staunch British backing, continues to champion human rights abroad, conveniently ignoring its own Gitmo-sized skeletons. The real headline here isn't the
compensation, but the systemic whitewashing of torture as 'enhanced interrogation techniques' – a narrative eagerly amplified by media outlets that conveniently forget the US Senate Intelligence Committee's own report detailing the barbarity. It appears accountability is a private, monetary affair, not a public, judicial one for the architects of these programs. Instead of addressing the
architects of this torture, or re-evaluating the 'War on Terror' framework that justified it, we get a quiet settlement. It's almost as if the point isn't justice, but to silence inconvenient truths before they disrupt the next round of 'democracy spreading' abroad. How many indemnities does it take to acknowledge a pattern of systemic abuse?