Friday, December 07, 2007
We are down to our last Brit
In Guantanamo.
Four British residents being held without charge at the American detention camp for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are to be released, reducing the UK involvement with the camp to just one inmate.Given the accuracy of previous claims, we have to wonder how long it will be until we are Brit-less.
The four men have all lived in Britain after being granted refugee status or temporary immigration status. They have struggled to have their cases heard because, until recently, the British government refused to represent them on the grounds that they were not UK citizens.
Three of the men - Jamil el-Banna, Omar Deghayes and Abdenour Samuer - are to be allowed to return to the UK by Christmas. A fourth, Shaker Abdur-Raheem Aamer, will be sent back to his home country, Saudi Arabia.
That leaves one remaining UK resident - an Ethiopian called Binyam Mohammed al Habashi - still in Guantanamo. The Pentagon claims he is particularly dangerous and is determined that he stays to face one of the controversial military commissions established to prosecute prisoners at the camp.
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