Terror camp Britons to be sent home

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1096508,00.html

Terror camp Britons to be sent home
Guantanamo Bay deal 'before Xmas'

Kamal Ahmed and Tracy McVeigh
Sunday November 30, 2003
The Observer

A deal to return British terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay is to be sealed before Christmas, according to officials from America and the United Kingdom.

The 'returns policy' is now believed to be the leading option being considered in Washington which has made clear that it wants to end the tension between the US and Britain over the issue.

Under the agreement, the nine British detainees will be sent back to Britain, either after pleading guilty to charges in America and being sent to serve their sentences in British prisons, or without being charged.

It is then likely that some of them will be sent to Belmarsh prison in south London and held under prevention of terrorism legislation. At least two, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, the so-called 'Tipton Two' could be freed.

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"Stafford Smith said Iqbal had been taken abroad for an arranged marriage by his parents who were concerned about his 'westernised ways', including a fondness for Manchester United.

He disappeared on his stag night and turned up several weeks later in an Afghan jail. At the time the US was offering local people $4,500 to hand in 'foreign Taliban fighters'.

'The idea this rowdy football supporter from Tipton is a terrorist is laughable,' Stafford Smith said. 'He doesn't know how to load a gun.'"

Well, a nickname for Man Utd is "the Red Devils"...