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Britain To US: We Don't Want Guantánamo Nine Back
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 10-3-2006 | Ian Cobain - Vikram Dodd

Posted on 10/02/2006 5:12:55 PM PDT by blam

Britain to US: we don't want Guantánamo nine back

· Documents reveal secret talks in Washington
· British residents have no right to return say officials

Ian Cobain and Vikram Dodd
Tuesday October 3, 2006
The Guardian (UK)

The United States has offered to return nearly all British residents held at Guantánamo Bay after months of secret talks in Washington, the Guardian has learned. The British government has refused to accept the men, however, with senior officials saying they have no legal right to return. Documents obtained by the Guardian show US authorities are demanding that the detainees be kept under 24-hour surveillance if set free - restrictions that are dismissed by the British as unnecessary and unworkable.

Although all are accused of terrorist involvement, Britain says there is no intelligence to warrant the measures Washington wants, and it lacks the resources to implement them. "They do not pose a sufficient threat," said the head of counter-terrorism at the Home Office. The possible security arrangements appear to have caused months of wrangling, but senior UK sources have told the Guardian the government is interested in accepting only one man - Bisher al-Rawi - who is now known to have helped MI5 keep watch on Abu Qatada, the London-based Muslim cleric and al-Qaida suspect who was subsequently arrested.

At least nine former British residents have been detained without trial at Guantánamo for more than four years after being taken prisoner in the so-called war on terror. Their lawyers say some have suffered appalling mistreatment.

With the US government anxious to scale down and eventually close its prison at the Cuban base, however, the US state department is putting pressure on the British government to allow some to return. Foreign Office officials have denied that any talks have taken place.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: back; britain; dont; guantanamo; nine; us; want; we

1 posted on 10/02/2006 5:12:57 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

So we're setting them up for the new military tribunals. Good!


2 posted on 10/02/2006 5:17:27 PM PDT by gotribe (It's not a religion.)
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To: blam

"With the US government anxious to scale down and eventually close its prison at the Cuban base..."

Did I miss something?


3 posted on 10/02/2006 5:17:59 PM PDT by Moral Hazard ("That's why I vetoed the 'Johny can't read so let's get Johny laid' bill" - Mr. President)
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To: Moral Hazard

No. Bush has already been talking about shutting it down.


4 posted on 10/02/2006 5:22:05 PM PDT by processing please hold
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To: processing please hold
But didn't the federal government move a bunch of big-time terrorists to Guantanamo just a few weeks ago?
5 posted on 10/02/2006 5:30:07 PM PDT by Moral Hazard ("That's why I vetoed the 'Johny can't read so let's get Johny laid' bill" - Mr. President)
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To: blam

"Bisher al-Rawi - who is now known to have helped MI5 keep watch on Abu Qatada, "

Well if the Islamofacists didn't know who the 'insider' was, they sure do now.

The MSM doesn't care who gets maimed or killed, as long as they get their 'story'!

Jerks!


6 posted on 10/02/2006 5:31:16 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: blam
I suggest you give them to Fidel. Throw them over the fence, if you must.

Regards, Ivan

7 posted on 10/02/2006 5:31:21 PM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: processing please hold
Yea, he's going to close down the publically known and despised, Gitmo. In its place he's gonna use C-130's flying in a circles (one can never face towards mecca for more than a few seconds) over the Atlantic, with the ramp down.

Until the ragheads spill the beans they are given bread and water and no blanket, no toilet paper, and no quaran.

Once they spill the beans they are tossed out the back and into the Atlantic.

Sounds like a plan to me. :-))

8 posted on 10/02/2006 5:35:38 PM PDT by AFreeBird (If American "cowboy diplomacy" did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.)
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To: Moral Hazard

I don't know about that, but, I remember his talking about maybe it was time to close it. I'll se if I can find the article.


9 posted on 10/02/2006 5:35:57 PM PDT by processing please hold
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To: AFreeBird
In its place he's gonna use C-130's flying in a circles (one can never face towards mecca for more than a few seconds) over the Atlantic, with the ramp down.

Sounds like a plan I could live with.

10 posted on 10/02/2006 5:37:04 PM PDT by processing please hold
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To: Moral Hazard
Here it is.

Guantanamo Bay Prison May close...Bush hints

11 posted on 10/02/2006 5:42:06 PM PDT by processing please hold
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To: blam
I notice the Guardian has taken up the NYT's obvious slant....

"after being taken prisoner in the so-called war on terror"

Is there a non-Dhimmi newspaper?
12 posted on 10/02/2006 6:15:00 PM PDT by Free_SJersey (THE GOVERNMENT THAT GOVERNS LEAST, GOVERNS BEST.)
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Bush has already been talking about shutting [Gitmo] down

Works for me.

13 posted on 10/02/2006 6:33:29 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The hallmark of a crackpot conspiracy theory is that it expands to include countervailing evidence.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
works for me.

And me. How I wish it were so.

14 posted on 10/02/2006 7:23:51 PM PDT by processing please hold
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