UK pays terror suspect tortured by US

A settlement has been reached with Guantanamo “forever prisoner” Abu Zubaydah, his attorneys have announced

The British government has agreed to pay out a “substantial” sum to settle a lawsuit over its intelligence services’ role in the torture of a terror suspect who is effectively indefinitely detained by the US.

Abu Zubaydah, whom the George W. Bush administration once claimed was a senior Al Qaeda figure, has been held without trial in US custody...