'British IS bomber in Iraq' Ronald Fiddler was former Guantanamo detainee

[sunonmars]

Ronald Fiddler was reported to have been paid up to £1m compensation by the UK government after being freed from the Cuban camp.

A British man said by Islamic State to have detonated a suicide bomb attacking Iraqi forces in Mosul is former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ronald Fiddler, Sky sources have said.

IS named the bomber as Abu Zakariya al Britani, and claimed the vehicle he was in had exploded in Tal Kisum village, south of Mosul.

The "al Britani" name is often used by the extremist group to indicate a fighter's British background.

Ronald Fiddler, 50, was one of five Britons released in 2004 after being held at America's Guantanamo Bay detention centre, on Cuba, for more than two years.

http://news.sky.com/story/british-is-suicide-bomber-named-as-ronald-fiddler-10777011

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You can imagine how Trump is going to push this one......a clusterf**k on many levels......This is also a huge mess for the previous Lab Govt in the uk, who proclaimed him innocent....

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Bush should ultimately be blamed for mishandling the detainees

After detaining people and (most likely) mistreating them and then failing to establish a good framework for trying detainees, they were either going to have to be released or rot in their cells for the rest of their lives- like some probably will under Trump. And some of them were likely wrongly swept up and detained though they were innocent. Unfortunately, there is also no way to ensure that, once released, they will all be peaceful, law abiding citizens.