Scum-watch: More heartlessness over Binyam Mohamed.
The Scum continues its shamefully heartless low-level campaign against Binyam Mohamed returning from Guantanamo:
Perhaps we should charge the doubtless extravagant cost to the United States, considering they were the ones responsible for Mohamed's unlawful detention for the past five years. Suggesting something similar though would expose the Sun's long-term position: that it has never so much as once called for the closure of the Cuban camp and has opposed the return of every single British citizen and resident from there. It even went so far as to sneer at the concern raised about the conditions by comparing what was meted out to Daniel Pearl:
Likewise, when Moazzam Begg was returned it printed the following leader column:
Not a single one of the returned former Guantanamo detainees has been charged with any offence in this country, nor is there any indication that any have returned to any variety of Islamic militancy. Some might say the Sun is just being cautious, defensive, especially considering how some of them were to find themselves in American custody. Others might be inclined to believe that the paper finds nothing whatsoever wrong with "bad people" being locked up without charge or any chance of a fair trial, and that therefore to return these "bad men" to this good country is an outrage. There is however something astonishingly low about complaining about the cost of sending an air ambulance to care properly for a man who is quite clearly seriously ill, regardless of what he's accused of. Such basic humanity seems to be beyond the Sun's conscience, though:
How should we have got him back then? Stuck him on a commercial flight from Havana and let the Sun's fearless journalists quiz the desperately ill man about how he's going to kill us all eventually but to begin with is just going to steal our benefits? The attempt at wit which is asking whether they'll send a Rolls to the airport is beneath contempt; far more likely is that they'll send another ambulance, but to consider that might again cause a few pangs of conscience.
Meanwhile, this is happening:
From the woman they wished would slither back under a rock to "the tragedy we all feared" in just more than 24 months.
AN AIR ambulance will bring Guantanamo Bay terror suspect Binyam Mohamed to Britain — at taxpayers’ expense.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband also sent a medic to treat Mohamed, who is on hunger strike.
The Ethiopian — whose right to live in Britain expired five YEARS ago — was set to arrive yesterday, but was too ill.
Perhaps we should charge the doubtless extravagant cost to the United States, considering they were the ones responsible for Mohamed's unlawful detention for the past five years. Suggesting something similar though would expose the Sun's long-term position: that it has never so much as once called for the closure of the Cuban camp and has opposed the return of every single British citizen and resident from there. It even went so far as to sneer at the concern raised about the conditions by comparing what was meted out to Daniel Pearl:
No Geneva Convention for Daniel. No orange suits in the Cuban sun.
Instead, these evil brutes filmed his murder on video and sent it to the Americans.
Likewise, when Moazzam Begg was returned it printed the following leader column:
IF you live in the Birmingham area, it’s possible you have a new neighbour who turned up in the past few days.
His name is Moazzam Begg and he’s one of the freed Guantanamo Four.
The legal papers on Begg released by the American Justice Department make disturbing reading.
America says Begg has received “extensive” terrorist training in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, including how to use AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
He was armed and prepared to fight American and allied troops, the documents state.
Begg denies this and claims he took his wife and children from Birmingham to Afghanistan to open a school in Kabul.
In a sworn statement, his wife claims they wanted to live in a society that was safe for their family.
Afghanistan, under the rule of the evil Taliban, safer than bringing up children in the Midlands?
Unbelievable, isn’t it?
Almost as unbelievable as the fact that, for political reasons, terrorist suspects are walking our streets.
Not a single one of the returned former Guantanamo detainees has been charged with any offence in this country, nor is there any indication that any have returned to any variety of Islamic militancy. Some might say the Sun is just being cautious, defensive, especially considering how some of them were to find themselves in American custody. Others might be inclined to believe that the paper finds nothing whatsoever wrong with "bad people" being locked up without charge or any chance of a fair trial, and that therefore to return these "bad men" to this good country is an outrage. There is however something astonishingly low about complaining about the cost of sending an air ambulance to care properly for a man who is quite clearly seriously ill, regardless of what he's accused of. Such basic humanity seems to be beyond the Sun's conscience, though:
AN air ambulance and a doctor have been sent by the Government to bring dangerous Guantanamo suspect Binyam Mohamed back to Britain.
Labour say we have no option but to take him back.
But laying on a private jet stinks.
Will they send a Rolls to the airport?
How should we have got him back then? Stuck him on a commercial flight from Havana and let the Sun's fearless journalists quiz the desperately ill man about how he's going to kill us all eventually but to begin with is just going to steal our benefits? The attempt at wit which is asking whether they'll send a Rolls to the airport is beneath contempt; far more likely is that they'll send another ambulance, but to consider that might again cause a few pangs of conscience.
Meanwhile, this is happening:
From the woman they wished would slither back under a rock to "the tragedy we all feared" in just more than 24 months.
Labels: Binyam Mohamed, Guantanamo, Jade Goody, Scum-watch, Sun-watch, terror, terror suspects
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I seem to remember it was only a few years ago that the Sun laid on a private jet for someone actually convicted in a British court of law. That was of course Ronnie Biggs, but he was white, so in the Sun's scale of things that was ok.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009 4:30:00 PM