LONDON (Reuters) - Britain agreed on Friday to pay compensation to an Algerian pilot who was put in jail for five months after he was wrongly accused of involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Lotfi Raissi was arrested 10 days after the attacks on New York and Washington, threatened with extradition to the United States and put in a maximum security prison because U.S. police thought he had been involved in the al Qaeda plot.
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