Sirhan Sirhan, the patsy arrested at the scene of the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, has been incarcerated ever since. That’s 40+ years and counting…

Binyam Mohamed: free soon after 80 months?

So perhaps Binyam Mohamed should count his lucky stars.

Mr Mohamed’s nightmare –  as a victim of the bogus Bush-era ‘War on Terror’  - has only been going on for six and a half years. It even looks like he might be out soon, to rebuild as best he can a life shattered by the criminal abuse of State power.

Binyam Mohamed’s release seems to hinge on agreement between the USA and Britain not to embarrass each other too much with the gory inside details of his torture, which apparently entailed a significant level of complicity from British agents.

How odd they’re taking so long to agree to a cover-up. After all, cover-ups are an Anglo-American speciality.

A scene inside Guantanamo Bay - probably the least distressing period of Mr Mohamed's incarceration!

Ex-British diplomat Craig Murray has a special interest in US-UK collusion over torture. He was sacked for exposing it. He points to the The Most Rancid Hypocrisy of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Government and his odious Foreign Minister, David Milibrand. Both continue to claim the UK does not support or condone torture.

However, this is 2009, not 2002. These days, the British Government’s credibility is much lower than that of a Guantanamo inmate – and only slighly higher than the likes of Bernie Madoff.