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2010-04-24 Britain

Britain to pay compensation to former 9/11 suspect

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Posted by Steve White 2010-04-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Any airline company employing this dude should be black listed.As for the British Government giving compensation to this scummer, he just joins a long list of foreign nationals being given UK tax payers money.

Posted by Dave UK 2010-04-24 00:21|| 2010-04-24 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Truly innocent? There's a lot of middle ground between "truly innocent" and convicted by a jury. And one never knows where one is in that middle ground. Would you want to be in a plane flown by this guy? The guy lost me when he claimed racism. My life wasn't safe? Taqiyya, anyone?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-24 08:07|| 2010-04-24 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3 The British-based Algerian had studied at a flight school in Arizona and U.S. officials believed he was linked to the hijacker who crashed an airliner into the Pentagon.

Flight school training in Arizona? Hmmmmmmm. Did he drop out of or skip the part of training where he learned how to land the plane? Or did he only get as far in school as to where you learn how to navigate the plane towards large buildings?

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-24 10:11|| 2010-04-24 10:11|| Front Page Top

#4 If he's truly innocent he should resume his career. I wouldn't object to a careful review. But I do believe (as an American) that innocent people, when wronged, should be compensated for that wrong.

Posted by Steve White 2010-04-24 12:04|| 2010-04-24 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 But I do believe (as an American) that innocent people, when wronged, should be compensated for that wrong.

So every person who is found not guilty deserves compensation?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-24 12:22|| 2010-04-24 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 No. In the U.S. we can go to court to redress wrongs if we can show we have been wronged. On the other hand there is a serendipitous aspect of life where we are in the wrong place at the wrong time and we get screwed by the fickle finger of fate.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-24 12:31|| 2010-04-24 12:31|| Front Page Top

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