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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-18-09 07:38 AM
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£60,000 awarded to terror suspect
Source: BBC News

The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay £60,000 damages to a man it arrested during an anti-terror raid.

The High Court heard that Babar Ahmad was subjected to "serious gratuitous prolonged unjustified violence" and "religious abuse" after his arrest.

Mr Ahmad, a 34-year-old IT support analyst, was never charged following the dawn raid at his home in Tooting, south west London, in December 2003.

He is now in jail awaiting extradition to the US on separate charges

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7950540.stm
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-18-09 07:55 AM
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1. sounds to me like Britain is saying "whoops"
about this--do you think anything will happen about his US case?
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-18-09 08:00 AM
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2. Different issues I think.
I'm not sure what charges he faces in the USA - IF extradited.
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