Suspected Terrorist Will Get $1.5 Million When Freed From Gitmo

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Shaker Aamer, a Muslim detainee in Guantanamo for the last 13 years, has reportedly been accused by Defense Department officials of a number of serious terror-related offenses. According to the U.K. paper The Telegraph:

U.S. authorities have accused him of being a senior al-Qaida figure, who acted as a ‘special interpreter’ for Osama bin Laden, was trained in the handling of explosives, and with had alleged links to terror networks both in the U.K. and U.S.”

Yet, despite the detailed claims of terror links, the 48-year-old Aamer — the last Gitmo detainee considered to be British — has been cleared by the Obama administration for release from the detention facility. When he returns to the U.K., and to his wife and four children, Shaker Aamer will reportedly receive a rather substantial payment from the British government — an amount equaling close to $1.5 million.

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