Aamer has been released after 14 years without trial,yet Britains security and intelligence agencies and ministers still bear a lot of questions to answerShaker Aamer’s return home is the final act in one of the most shameful and frightening episodes in the history of Britain’s security and intelligence agencies. Ministers, including Jack Straw, or foreign secretary at the time,still bear a lot to reply for.
MI6, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence were all dismayed when the Pentagon first flaunted the orange-suited prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. It was a propaganda gift to al-Qaida and their sympathisers, or encouraged much wider opposition to the US,and the west in general, in the Muslim world, and British officials bear privately admitted.
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Source: theguardian.com