[Excerpt: Britain's Financial Times reported this week that the release was part of a plan to radically reduce the number of prisoners held at thebase in Cuba.... It quoted a US defence official as saying that an increase in the number of transfers to an unspecified number of the 19 countries whose nationals are being held at Guantanamo Bay was part of a plan to create a permanent prison at the base. Published: 12/1/2005, 07:25 (UAE)
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/WorldNF.asp?ArticleID=147539 US to release five from Guantanamo Reuters London :Four remaining Britons and an Australian held at Guantanamo Bay will be released soon, officials and politicians said yesterday, amid reports the number of prisoners at the US base will be radically reduced.British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told parliament the Americans had agreed to free the four Britons while Australia's Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Australian Mamdouh Habib was being sent home at Canberra's request. "The US government has now agreed to the return of all four men to the United Kingdom," Straw said. "[They] will be returned in the next few weeks." A Pentagon spokesman did not confirm the releases, saying only:"We're regularly in negotiations with other countries, including the United Kingdom and Australia, about transferring detainees from Guantanamo." The United States holds about 550 non-US citizens at Guantanamo. Only four have been charged. Britain's Financial Times reported this week that the release was part of a plan to radically reduce the number of prisoners held at thebase in Cuba. It quoted a US defence official as saying that an increase in the number of transfers to an unspecified number of the 19 countries whose nationals are being held at Guantanamo Bay was part of a plan to create a permanent prison at the base. The prison to be called Camp Six would have space for up to 200 detainees whom the United States does not want to see released,Financial Times reported. The four Britons Feroz Abbasi, Martin Mubanga, Richard Belmar and Moazzam Begg have been held for three years at Guantanamo. Both Mubanga and Begg have said they were shackled and tortured in the camp although US authorities have dismissed their allegations. enditem [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give underprivileged students the materials they need to learn. Bring education to life by funding a specific classroom project. http://us.click.yahoo.com/FHLuJD/_WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
