Posted on 01/26/2005 1:46:29 PM PST by Cornpone
The four British men who returned home from Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday have been released without charge by police.
Moazzam Begg, Martin Mubanga, Feroz Abbasi and Richard Belmar were due to leave Paddington Green police station on Wednesday night, Scotland Yard said.
They had been questioned by anti-terrorist officers in the UK after being held at the camp in Cuba for three years.
The men had been accused by the US of having links to al-Qaeda.
Family reunion
They are now being reunited with their families at a location of their choice, police said.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Shortly before 9pm four men arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 on January 25 were released without charge.
"This followed liaison between police and the Crown Prosecution Service."
He said the men had been interviewed by anti-terrorist officers after being arrested under section 41 of the act, which referred to the alleged involvement in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
Mr Abbasi, 24, Mr Belmar, 25, Mr Mubanga, 32, all from London and Mr Begg, 36, from Birmingham, returned to the UK on Tuesday evening in an RAF plane.
Washington had claimed all four were "enemy combatants" who trained at camps run by al-Qaeda.
The Pentagon says they were freed after the UK government promised they would not be a threat to the national security of the US or any of its allies.
Yeh. Kind of strange. I guess as he tried to blow upa plane over America it was seen as Domestic.
I do not want to seem like I am supporting the terrorists here, I just think Gitmo could do better for it self in terms off PR and the systems it has for finding the guilty form the innocent.
I spent 12 years in the Army and I'll tell you what I'd do to them: long fall, short rope. End of story.
You think you're the only one with friends in-country?I share many of his sentiments
Your intelligence shines through your post! I can't compete with your brilliant arguments, Concrete-head, and will now thankfully cease communication with you, also.
Our courageous allies.
Hey eXXXpatpat, I hope yer not givin' us a line,shinin' us on,..."cease communication" ,...that sounds swell,...crawl back to where ya came
What brought you out of your spider hole so long after the action? Been hiding out -- or mourning the successful Iraqi election in your DUngeon?
HA HA ,...we all know who the DU is here tonight
The UK government may have broken that promise...
“FORMER GUANTANAMO DETAINEE ARRESTED IN UK ON SUSPICION OF SYRIA-RELATED TERRORISM”
by NICK HALLETT
25 Feb 2014
SNIPPET: “Moazzam Begg, a former detainee in Guantanamo Bay, who now lives in Birmingham, UK, has been arrested by British police on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offenses.
Begg was arrested this morning, along with two men and a woman in the West Midlands, on suspicion of attending a terrorist training camp and facilitating terrorism overseas.
The others arrested are a man aged 36, from the town of Shirley, a woman aged 44 from Sparkhill, Birmingham, and her 20-year-old son.
All four are currently being held at a police station in the West Midlands.”
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