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British Release Ex-Guantanamo Detainees The Associated Press
LONDON - Police released four Britons late Wednesday who had been held for up to three years at a U.S. military camp at Guantanamo Bay.
The men were returned to Britain on Tuesday, where they were immediately arrested under a provision of the Terrorism Act.
Metropolitan police questioned Moazzam Begg, Feroz Abbasi, Martin Mubanga and Richard Belmar the four most of the day Wednesday but announced shortly after 9 p.m. that no charges had been filed.
Some of the men claim they were tortured at Guantanamo, which holds detainees that U.S. authorities say are suspected of having links to al-Qaida or Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime. The four Britons were among some 550 prisoners from 42 countries swept up in the U.S.-led war on terror and detained without charge.
Abbasi, 24, was reportedly arrested by U.S. forces in northern Afghanistan in December 2001. Belmar, 25, and Begg, 37, were arrested in Pakistan in February 2002. Mubanga, 32, was detained in Zambia.
Five other Britons were released from Guantanamo in March and were not charged with any offense on their return to Britain. Four of them have filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court seeking $10 million each in damages.
January 26, 2005 4:23 PM
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