Inconvenient possibility?

Usually in such matters it takes a long time for the full and true story to come out, if indeed it ever does, but an MR commentator drew my attention to the following, concerning the courier who led them to the bin Laden hideout:

Detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had given the courier’s pseudonym to American interrogators and said that the man was a protégé of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed the confessed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The story (1/20) is here, and from Haaretz here is the same point made more explicitly.  I have never been pro-Guantánamo, or for that matter pro-torture (and do note the caveats above), but I am willing to report results which may run counter to my views.  The moral and the practical do not always coincide, and perhaps we should be celebrating just a bit less.  It is possible this is not a totally “clean” victory on our part.

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