No. Read it properly. He said "the legal battle" could cost up to £50million not that the compensation was £50mill.

You have absolutely no idea how much he was paid and nor do the Daily Mail yet are bandying about a seven figure sum.

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You're wasting your time... Rather bizarrely, Kermit et al will always defend the terrorist no matter what because the Left hate the west as much as radical Islam.

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The guilty - £0

The innocent - £££'s

Lawyers would have had their mucky, greedy paws all over this and I wouldn't be surprised if the main amount paid out went to them as their 'fees'

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As you can see, I am no longer in a position to respond.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Yes, and the US released them, and the UK was compliant by not protecting the legal rights of its citizens, as well as providing assistance in detention and rendition of suspects, who were held without trial, subject to torture and cruel conditions, indefinitely, without trial (or recourse).

The UK had the option, try the suspect as a criminal, or release them. Problem is, if they tried them, then their torture would invalidate evidence against them, and UK complicity in violating the legal rights of its citizens.

There is, in international law, grounds for detention of people during conflict, which is to grant them prisoner of war status. We chose deliberately, as did the US, to ignore that.

Being a terrorist isn't mental illness, as defined in UK law. Terrorism in the UK is a crime. secondly to prove that, you need to have a trial, and the individuals legal team lodge and prove grounds of diminished responsibility.

We don't detain lunatics indefinitely either. People found not guilty on the grounds of dimished responsibility are not imprisoned, they're sectioned under the mental health act, until such time as they're deemed no longer a threat to themselves or others, and capable of re-entry into society (which be remarkably quick in cases where they respond well to medication).

I'm sure you understand the consequences of suspending peoples legal rights entirely, on the basis of suspicion, by bias state party.

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I don't think we can pretend that we don't bend rules.
Winning a war of any sort usually requires drastic measures. I would like to uphold the principles that this country prides itself in but I can't put the interests of suspected terrorists above our citizens. That is the simple choice that the government and security services have to make.