Last year a number of the British media claimed that one Samih Ahmed of Walthamstow was arrested in connection with the alleged plot to blow up airplanes using liquid chemicals. Today the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday, the Guardian and the Daily Mail have agreed to pay libel damages and costs to Mr. Ahmed over the distress caused by the false accusations. I have the greatest of sympathies for Mr. Ahmed and I wish him well but it must be an admission of the severity of the libel that the papers more or less voluntarily agreed to pay out to a man who is an estate agent.
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