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1 posted on 02/26/2014 4:09:40 AM PST by Cindy
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4210815.stm

Last Updated: Thursday, 27 January, 2005, 02:02 GMT
“UK police release Guantanamo four”

SNIPPET: “The four were held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly three years
Four British men held at Guantanamo Bay for three years as “enemy combatants” have been freed by UK police.

Martin Mubanga, Feroz Abbasi, Richard Belmar and Moazzam Begg were being reunited with their families at a location of their choice, police said.

The men, from Birmingham and London, were questioned at Paddington Green police station after returning from Cuba but were released without charge.

The US accused them of having al-Qaeda links and says they are still a threat.”


2 posted on 02/26/2014 4:11:18 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10660838/Former-Guantanamo-detainee-Moazzam-Begg-arrested-following-compensation-payout.html

“Former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg arrested following compensation payout”
Begg won compensation fro

By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent, and Miranda Prynne4:43PM GMT 25 Feb 2014

SNIPPET: “A former Guantanamo detainee who won a huge compensation payout from the British taxpayer after suing the government has been arrested on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offenses.”

SNIPPET: “Two other men and a woman from the West Midlands were also taken into custody, a spokesman for West Midlands Police said.

A man aged 36 from Shirley, Solihull, and a 44-year-old woman and her son aged 20 from Sparkhill, Birmingham, were detained on suspicion of assisting terrorism overseas.

All four were being held at a police station in the West Midlands area.

Late last year it was reported the Home Office had confiscated Begg’s passport after he visited Syria.

He claimed he was stopped at Heathrow airport on a return trip from South Africa and told his passport was being taken as it was “not in the public interest” for him to travel.

In December Begg, a father of four, used his blog to describe how he made multiple visits to Syria in 2012 and said he had met British fighters there.”

SNIPPET: “Begg has admitted spending time at Islamic training camps in Afghanistan and knowing people linked to terrorism but has always denied the rest of the allegations.”


3 posted on 02/26/2014 4:25:35 AM PST by Cindy
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