UK release the Gitmo Four

[truebrit71]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4210815.stm

Just announced....

Let the lawsuits begin....

Three years in hell finally over, after less than 24 hours in police custody.

Guess they weren't that dangerous eh?

[Inland]

1. The US held them for nothing, and the UK didn't bother to ask

for their release--basically it was either now after the US election and Bush can weather the tiny bit of embarassment or they would be kept at Gitmo until they died with their stories.

[truebrit71]

2. Further info from the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1399368,00.html

[Jacobin]

3. Self-delete--dupe

Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Four British men held at the U.S. military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for almost three years have been released without charge by British police.

Moazzam Begg, Martin Mubanga, Richard Belmar and Feroz Abbasi were arrested after arriving back in the U.K. yesterday and questioned under the Terrorism Act 2000 at a central London police station.

``Shortly before 9:00 p.m. four men arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 were released without charge,'' a Scotland Yard spokesman said in an interview.

Five U.K. detainees were freed from the Guantanamo Bay camp last year. They were also questioned by British police and later released

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aoxDOCeehTZE&refer=uk

Gee, it took Scotland yard about two days to figure out they hadn't committed any crimes. It took the CIA three years of torture and they still didn't release them.

[truebrit71]

4. already being discussed here....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1186068

[struggle4progress]

5. kick

[struggle4progress]

6. At least five British residents are left behind in Camp Delta

By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
26 January 2005


As the detainees were brought home from Guantanamo Bay yesterday, the Government was accused of ignoring the plight of at least five other British residents incarcerated in the camp.

Ministers have argued that they have been unable to help the men because they were not travelling on UK passports when arrested on suspicion of terrorism.

The detainees are:

* Bisher al-Rawi, who lived in Britain for nearly 20 years after his father was arrested by Saddam Hussein. His family are UK nationals, but he retained Iraqi citizenship so that the family could keep a link with their homeland. He was questioned at Gatwick airport and released without charge in 2002. When he landed in Banjul, Gambia, he was arrested again on suspicion of links to al-Qa'ida. After being held for three months and interrogated by US investigators he was transferred to Bagram airbase in Afghanistan and then on to Guantanamo. <snip>

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=604630