Who can you sue...let's see...how about who ordered the worlds elite defense system to stand down? How about who ignored all the warnings? How about who scheduled all the "War Games" going on that morning to "confuse" the radar folks? How about suing whoever planted the thermite explosives in the THREE buildings that were imploded?
Or maybe just cut to the chase and sue the CIA for creating this phony bogey man Al Queada and arch villain Bin Laden. It is all a farce, to frighten us into giving up our freedoms and to accept things like false imprisonment, no access to lawyers or family, no habeas corpus, torture , on and on. You all may be spared some of the worst over there but we here in Amerika are headed for a real fascist nightmare............unless we can get the truth out soon.

John Burke, Baltimore, USA

Mr. Raissi should be grateful that he had a trial in the British courts. Had he, or anyone else for that matter, been held in US custody, there is no doubt that he would have been tortured and no amount of evidence proving his innocence would probably been admitted. Similar stories of others in US custody in Guantanamo are beginning to emerge. Luckily, This unfortunate man was able to present his case in a court of law and show that it was not even an accident that he had been incorrectly held in custody for all these years.

Now, it is time to bring justice to those who used unfair and illicit means to destroy this man's life.

Andy Jones, Bermuda, Bermuda

I totally agree with Martin Gheczy but you are the ones that put yourselves up to be better, what good is it to invade a country under the pretext of creating Democarcy and then act like people you are ejecting.

If you say you are better, you need to act that way as well. Torture in Guantánamo, detention without trial etc. Walk the walk !!

We never believed you then, we dont believe you now, you have proved it.

Frank Louw, Joburg, RSA

It doesn't happen often, but at times like this I'm proud to be British. The cheating of Mr Raissi is probably small beer compared with some of the other things we've done on behalf of the torturers and perverts, but we can and should do the decent thing and compensate our victim in this case.

Andy Dyer, London, UK,

For all the comments already listed - both funny and serious - where are the ones asking who is going to make the police and the CPS answer for this. They have pandered to US prejudice, wasted taxpayers money, wasted the court's time, and that's before we even get to effects on the poor individual concerned.
HOW MANY POLICE OFFICERS AND LAWYERS ARE GOING TO JAIL BECAUSE OF THIS FARCE??

KR, Stockport,

Martin. I agree with you. However, as a civilized society, we must ensure that everyone is treated fairly and equally under the law. Terrorism and extremism must be addressed, but the basic rights of the indivisual must be respected.

Hamad Lone, London, England

how come the british taxpayer is going to have this guy compensation when we acting on bahalf of the USA?

Garth Wiseman, london, england

Quite rightly we should compensate Mr Raissi for his appalling treatment he has received.
Yet again the taxpayer has to pay for inept government and the lies of the state police.
Shame on the the ones arguing against this, you are NOT fit to live in a decent country, then again, none of us do in the UK

Tab-a Sadam, West Yorkshire, UK

I do wish there was anything in the islamic world that would even come close to the British justice system. That muslims in the Western world enjoy the same rights as christians or people of any other faith is something that to Muslims seems quite natural and only fair. Maybe just as natural as the fact that non-muslims are discriminated against in much of the muslim world (after all they are just bleeding infidels ...)?

Martin Gheczy, Lucerne, Switzerland

The rule of law and due process is beginning to return to this country as the judges begin to fight back at the Blairite "guilt by accusation" police state.

In recent days we have seen a judge abolish the gestapo-esque thought-crimes agenda, and now another judge has dared contradict the anti-freedom authoritarian tendencies of Blairite ministers.

Is there any surprise that the Metropolitan Police routinely breaks the 1,000 year-old legal privelege of confidentiality between lawyer and client when it's chief secretly bugged conversations between him and the country's leading legal officials.

If the nation cannot rely on its discredited, snouts-in-trough members of parliament, at least we can rely on the judges to protect our liberties.

Time to abolish state tyranny.

Ben Franklin, Freetown, Liberia