Last week Channel 4 aired a film by Michael Winterbottom that highlighted the horrific experiences of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Yet the press reaction to the film has been vitriolic. Times columnist David Aaronovitch strongly implied that the “Tipton Three” had fought for the Taliban – although neither torture nor the British police could unearth the slenderest shred of evidence for this.
Nick Cohen in the Evening Standard berated the journalist Rowan Pelling for saying she had been “radicalised” by the film. Liberals, he fumed, were “in bed with radical Islam”.
What does it tell you when those who attacked the anti-war movement for “appeasing” Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime can’t bring themselves to discuss torture by the US without smearing and impugning its victims?
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