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.
Tony Blair is on our side. The Brits just have their own constitutional issues to deal with. Their equivalent of the supreme court just ruled today that indefinite incarceration without trial is illegal. I expect the Brits are simply letting these guys go so they can lead them to something bigger...like whoever recruited them in the first place.
We had already done this before with previous gitmo inmates released to Britain so I doubt the US would release them to us if they thought they would a threat.
I am sure the US knew what would happen. We are too close to you guys to lie at that level.
We will definitely have guys trailing them.
The media as well. They will be followed and kept tabs on for the rest of their lives.
On Fox, quoting a Brit official, not sure which one.
I am sure whatever agreement was made will be kept.
No need to worry, we are good for our word.
And "fair trial"? We don't need no stinking fair trial for non-uniformed TERRORISTS.
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Any proper ally of Britain would give a British Citizen a fair trial in an open court.
I'm sure you will. Cheers.
I knew this would be what the Brits would do....again!
You sound like one of the guards at Auschwitz!
UK passport, not British. There is no such country as Britain. Great Britain is the name of the island made up of England, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom (for short) is the name of the country.
"You sound like one of the guards at Auschwitz!"
Ironic huh?
Yes, I realise. I am a proud subject of the Queen so am fairly familiar with those islands.
What do you mean? Are you referring to the likes of that fellow in Tottenham or where ever he "preaches"?
I've been out the UK (emigrated to the US) for a few years so may not be up date on to all the reports on this.
<< "four British men"
These maggots may have British passports, but they're not British. >>
Don't kid yourself.
These four British men ARE British -- and represent Britain's future.
Or would, that is, had the Turd-Way Tiny Blair Gang not, while reducing that squalid socialist state to its offshore-satellite-state status, signed Britain's future over along with its sovereignty to the hatred-driven Brussels' Neo-Soviet's mindless bureacracy.
And particularly its ability to control immigration.
<< John Walker Lindh did not go to Gitmo ... >>
No.
He should have been so lucky.
Instead, however, he went to bloody prison for twenty years.
That is close enough to my punishment regime so, I agree with you.
"Well considering a few of them were actually innocent of any connection to terrorism I do not think that would be a good idea."
I for one can't see how they could possibly be innocent of connection to terrorism when they were captured fighting alongside terrorists. I would've thought that makes them terrorists. But maybe I'm just old fashioned.
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