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| Former Gitmo detainee gets rock star treatment in the UK |
| 2006-06-15 |
| When President Bush ordered Moazzam Begg's release last year from the Guantánamo prison camp, United States officials say, he did so over objections from the Pentagon, the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. — all of which warned that Mr. Begg could still be a dangerous terrorist. But American officials may not have imagined the sort of adversary Mr. Begg would become in the war of perception that is now a primary front in the American-led campaign against terrorism. "The issue here is: Apply the law," Mr. Begg told an audience earlier this spring at the Oxford Literary Festival in England, one of many stops on a continuing lecture tour. "If I've committed a crime, we say, take this to court. After all of that, if they can't produce something in court, then shame on them!" |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 "His family was relatively comfortable and liberal. His father, a Muslim born in India, was a bank manager who wrote poetry in Urdu." Any connection to the billionaire Pakistani Begg's involved in the BCCI bank scandal that funded Khan's network? |
| Posted by: Danielle 2006-06-15 15:04 |
| #1 Whether Mr. Begg is the potential threat the Pentagon claims or the harmless man he professes to be cannot be fully resolved from the available evidence. But I think I know the Times call on that. You can almost see their starry eyes. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-06-15 08:20 |