Maybe next, they'll invite Osama bin Laden to the State Department dining room for a cup of tea: On January 14, 2010, a former Guantanamo detainee named Moazzam Begg met with the foreign minister of Luxembourg to discuss the resettlement of additional detainees in Europe. Afterward, Begg attended a screening of "Taxi to the Dark Side," a film that portrays America's detention policies in the worst possible light. Begg also participated in a Q&A session with members of the audience.This prompted an American diplomat who was in attendance to write a summary of the event and of Begg's "barnstorming" tour throughout Europe. (A copy of the cable can be found on the New York Times's web site.) Foggy Bottom's correspondent gushed: Mr. Begg is doing our work for us, and his articulate, reasoned presentation makes for a convincing argument. It is ironic that after four years of imprisonment and alleged torture, Moazzam Begg is delivering the same demarche to...(Read Full Post)