Gitmo detainee fears returning to Jordan

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Last updated May 25, 2007 3:41 p.m. PT
By ANDREW O. SELSKY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Jamil el-Banna has been locked up by the United States for nearly five years without being charged - arrested in Africa, allegedly tortured at a CIA "black site" in Afghanistan, then held at Guantanamo Bay - all because of faulty British intelligence, his defenders charge.

Now his lawyers have a new worry. The British government told them Friday that el-Banna had been cleared by the U.S. for transfer to his native Jordan, where he says he was tortured before becoming a political refugee in Britain in 1997.

His lawyers decried the move, charging that sending him back amounted to the U.S. outsourcing torture. ~snip~

British Prime Minister Tony Blair recently told Parliament that he opposes el-Banna's return to Britain, where the detainee's wife and five British-citizen children live and where - according to an opposition lawmaker - official mishandling of intelligence information got him arrested in the first place. ~snip~

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