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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  GUANTANAMO BAY BRITONS 'WILL SUE THE USA FOR �30M' Mon Jan 24 2005 21:30:10 ET THE four Britons still held in Guantanamo Bay are due to fly home today as their lawyers prepare to launch a record �30million compensation claim over their 'illegal' detention. MORE The UK's DAILY MAIL is planning to report on Tuesday: At least two of the men allege they have been tortured and all four are understood to claim their human rights were consistently abused during three years in the controversial camp on Cuba. The claims will form the basis of the biggest compensation suit so far against the U.S. authorities over alleged torture and abuse. It will detail a string of what are said to be 'devastating' allegations over the four men's detention and treatment. Under the agreement with the U.S. to secure their freedom, the four will be questioned by anti-terrorist detectives at Paddington Green police station in Central London where they can be held for up to seven days. Former law student and father of four Moazzam Begg, 36, from Birmingham, computer programmer Feroz Abbasi, 24, motorcycle courier Martin Mubanga, 29, and Richard Belmar, 24, all from London, will be arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 after arriving in Britain today on an RAF plane. All have been extensively interviewed in Guantanamo Bay by MI5 but despite detailed files, including alleged evidence uncovered by U.S. interrogators, they are said to be unlikely to face charges in Britain. The U.S. say they attended Al Qaeda terror camps, volunteered for suicide bombings and pledged allegiance to Osama Bin Laden. Begg is said under to have confessed to a plot to bomb Parliament while Abbasi is alleged to have volunteered for suicide missions and to have been arrested in the Afghan frontline town of Kunduz armed with a rifle and two grenades. But any 'evidence' obtained in Camp Delta cannot be used in courts here because the detainees were not legally represented or formally cautioned. The men have claimed that admissions they are alleged to have made were extracted 'under duress'. Their lawyers and families, who say all four may be deeply traumatized by their three years detention, believe the men will be questioned and released, although the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens is said to have still been considering at the weekend whether any of the men should be charged. Developing... |
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