Binyam Mohamed, 30, foreground, a British resident who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, covers his face as he leaves RAF Northolt in west London Monday Feb. 23, 2009, after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity — the first inmate from the U.S. prison camp freed since President Barack Obama took office. The Ethiopian-born detainee has been held at Guantanamo since September 2004 after his arrest in Pakistan, accused by U.S. officials of being part of a conspiracy to detonate a 'dirty bomb' on American soil. (AP Photo/ Sang Tan)The War On Terror Goes On, Whatever We Call It -- Times Online
Binyam Mohamed may have been maltreated, but that doesn't mean that the threat from Islamic theocracies is not real
George Bush is gone, Binyam Mohamed is home from Guantánamo, and the War on Terror is no more. Rejoice. It was all a bad dream.
Should even a fraction of Mr Mohamed's story of physical and psychological abuse in various prisons from Morocco to Afghanistan turn out to be true, he has been appallingly treated. His activist lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, is quoted as saying that Mr Mohamed was “a victim who has suffered more than any human being should ever suffer”.
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