The British government has agreed to pay a “substantial sum” to settle a lawsuit by a Guantanamo Bay detainee who said U.K. intelligence agencies were complicit in his torture at secret U.S. interrogation sites, his lawyer said Monday.
Abu Zubaydah was thought to be a high-ranking member of al-Qaida, the terrorist group that carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, when he was captured in Pakistan in 2002. Zubaydah, a Palestinian born in Saudi Arabia, was tortured at so-called CIA black sites abroad before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.
