Reply #6: At least five British residents are left behind in Camp Delta

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By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
26 January 2005


As the detainees were brought home from Guantanamo Bay yesterday, the Government was accused of ignoring the plight of at least five other British residents incarcerated in the camp.

Ministers have argued that they have been unable to help the men because they were not travelling on UK passports when arrested on suspicion of terrorism.

The detainees are:

* Bisher al-Rawi, who lived in Britain for nearly 20 years after his father was arrested by Saddam Hussein. His family are UK nationals, but he retained Iraqi citizenship so that the family could keep a link with their homeland. He was questioned at Gatwick airport and released without charge in 2002. When he landed in Banjul, Gambia, he was arrested again on suspicion of links to al-Qa'ida. After being held for three months and interrogated by US investigators he was transferred to Bagram airbase in Afghanistan and then on to Guantanamo. <snip>

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=604630