Today's Top Journalism: Torture is OK if It's Sunny

Today intrepid reporter Ben Leach of The Daily Telegraph gives us the inside story on a case involving torture, extraordinary rendition, and deprivation of basic human rights:

Binyam Mohamed, the British resident released from US detention base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, has told friends that Britain is too cold.

Comments

[Dave]

He trained in a Qaeda camp because he hates non-Muslims and the West. Now he comes back, says he's happy to be back, then complains it's too cold. Maybe he should go back to Ethopia. He's a free man. Who's stopping him?

[UJ]

Ahhh, classic. "Go back to Africa." Now doesn't that just make you want to stand up and salute the flag?

[Mike Dunn]

If everyone in Britain who complained about the cold really did go elsewhere this island would be completely deserted by year's end.

Moaning about the weather is as British as it gets.

[Dave]

Who's complaining about the climate here? It's mild. You just get a lot of rain. It's not a big deal. That's one of the nice things about living in Britain. Mild temps. The grass here is green all year 'round!! I tell people in New York about that and they don't believe me! The grass is browned over and frozen in New York. It's *crunch* *crunch* *crunch* when you walk on it. The ground is frozen over there in the winter months. Binyam Mohamed would never survive...

I believe Simon and Garfunkel mention it in one of their songs. -- "....where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me."