Lost amidst all the sentimental 9/11 tributes, Abu Zubaydah remains, after almost twenty years of unimaginable torture, imprisoned without charge in Guantanamo Bay. Despite having had no involvement in the attacks, the US is committed to keeping Abu Zubaydah trapped there until he simply dies - so important is it that he not be released and risk exposing the full, nightmarish extent of the rendition and torture programmes operated against him and hundreds of others. American comfort and apathy has been purchased with their blood.
Now’s a good time to remind people that because the US government offered cash rewards to people in Pakistan and Afghanistan for snitching on 9/11 plotters, several people ended up in black sites or Guantanamo simply because their neighbor wanted or needed to make a few grand and reported them for something they had literally zero connection to just to collect the reward.