Via Harper’s Magazine (January 18, 2010):
Furthermore, new evidence now emerging may entangle Obama’s young administration with crimes that occurred during the George W. Bush presidency, evidence that suggests the current administration failed to investigate seriously—and may even have continued—a cover-up of the possible homicides of three prisoners at Guantánamo in 2006.
A Guantánamo detainee at the center of a long standoff between the United States and Britain was freed and returned to Britain on Monday after almost seven years in American custody.
The detainee, Binyam Mohamed, was captured in Pakistan in April 2002. American officials said he had been part of a conspiracy to detonate a dirty bomb on American soil, but all charges against him were eventually dismissed. He has said he was held for 18 months in Morocco, where he says he was tortured, then was moved to Afghanistan and then to the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
A UK resident detained at Guantanamo Bay has won a High Court ruling that the government should disclose material which he says backs his torture claims.
Binyam Mohamed, who is facing terrorism charges, says the documents support his case that the evidence against him has been obtained through torture.