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Thread #118965 Message #2575874
Posted By: Teribus
25-Feb-09 - 05:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Binyam Mohammed - the VILE Daily Express
Subject: RE: BS: Binyam Mohammed - the VILE Daily Express
Reading through the article linked to by Richard Bridge you get the following factual information:
• A FORMER Al Qaeda suspect was flown back to Britain on a luxury jet yesterday – at Government expense.
• Ethiopian Mohamed's return to his adopted country cost an amazing £120,000.
• Last night, he was preparing to apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK and receive a possible £21,600-a-year in benefits and allowances.
• That's around £5,000 more than earned by a frontline British soldier risking his life to fight Mohamed's alleged Taliban associates in Afghanistan.
• The former detainee, a failed asylum seeker who was once granted British resident status, may also try to sue the British Government for hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages.
• Mohamed, who arrived in Britain in 1994, was given leave to remain for four years in 2000. In June 2001, he travelled to Afghanistan where he was alleged to have fought against anti-Taliban forces. He was arrested at Karachi, Pakistan, in April 2002 as he went to board a flight back to the UK.
• Mohamed, who has a flat in North Kensington, London