*Ø* Blogmanac | Guantanamo five freed without charge

"The four British men released from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba were freed by police without charge last night. [The fifth had already been released - N]

"The men had been held under the Terrorism Act at Paddington Green station in west London after they were flown to Britain on Tuesday by the RAF.

"They were freed after anti-terrorist police, working with MI5 and the Crown Prosecution Service, agreed that there were no grounds for their detention...

"Dergoul's brother said M15 had flown out to Cuba three times to interview the British detainees and found nothing. 'They have not got a shred of evidence against them and I know that because I received reports about it.'

"Steven Watt, a British lawyer with the US-based Centre for Constitutional Rights who represented Rasul and Iqbal in taking their case to the US Supreme Court, was scathing about their detention.

"He said: 'I think what happened in terms of them arriving at a military base in the UK and taken into custody was just window dressing for the benefit of the US government.'"

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