Insane.
Via Daily Mail:
Taxpayers paid £1 million to a suspected terrorist accused of going to al-Qaeda training camps and planning attacks on American and Jewish targets.
Feroz Abbasi was one of 16 men held at Guantanamo Bay who were paid a total of £20 million compensation by the UK to settle claims of complicity in their rendition and detention.
U.S. forces captured the 34-year-old from Croydon, South London, in Afghanistan and held him in a series of secret prisons until finally releasing him from Guantanamo in 2005.
It has now emerged that an al-Qaeda ‘supergrass’* told officials in 2004 that Abbasi had been helped travel to Afghanistan by extremist cleric Abu Hamza ‘to receive jihad training’.
The revelations, contained in documents relating to Hamza’s trial in the U.S., have prompted questions over the decision to pay compensation to Abbasi when there were claims he was at the heart of an Islamic terrorist group.
* ‘Supergrass’ is a British term for informer