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Thread #118965   Message #2575863
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
25-Feb-09 - 04:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Binyam Mohammed - the VILE Daily Express
Subject: RE: BS: Binyam Mohammed - the VILE Daily Express
...are you able to prove that he is not a terror suspect? Of course he was a terror suspect - the point is, he hasn't been found guilty of any kind of terrorist activity.

"Innocent until proved guilty" is the bottom line in any society with aspirations to be regarded as anything other than a legal pariah.
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"As to the torture, then that is not acceptable.

Going out on a limb there, I see, Villan.
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"I have to be as much in the dark about this person as most people in this country." A lot more so, I would suggest, than anybody who has read a reputable paper in recent weeks.

For example here's a list of stories where Binyam Mohammed gets a mention in The Daily Telegraph - not a notably liberal or left-wing publication.