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Father's joy as son set for release from Guantanamo Fears for

mental state after three years in soli...

 

 

 

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Jan 12, 2005 - The Herald

Author(s): Michael Settle Chief Uk Political Correspondent

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AZMAT Begg was yesterday overjoyed at the prospect of his

son's release after three years' incarceration at the US naval base in

Guantanamo Bay.

 

 

But he admitted: " My concern is about his mental and physical

health after he has spent three years in solitary confinement without talking to

people . . . I was told even after three or four weeks in solitary confinement,

like he had, that people go out of their minds. "

 

 

His comments came after Jack Straw, foreign secretary,

announced that following " intensive and complex " discussions with the US,

Britain's last remaining Guantanamo detainees would be returned to Britain to

face questioning.

 

 

It emerged that the Pentagon had received " a number of

security assurances " from Britain about the detainees' transfer, but spokesmen

on both sides of the Atlantic declined to reveal details.

 

 

The four men - Moazzam Begg, 36, from Birmingham, and Feroz

Abbasi, Richard Belmar, both 23, and Martin Mubanga, 29, all from London - have

been held at Camp Delta at the US naval base in Cuba for as long as three years.

 

 

One Australian detainee will also be returned to his country.

 

 

The four Britons are accused of being trained by al Qaeda.

 

 

Mr Begg said his son had moved to Afghanistan to set up a

language school and was arrested in Islamabad by coalition troops in February

2002.

 

 

In one uncensored letter released to his legal team last year,

Moazzam Begg claimed he had been tortured while being held at Bagram air base in

Afghanistan, prior to his transfer to Cuba. The claim is denied by the US.

 

 

The likelihood is that, along with his fellow terror suspects,

Mr Begg will be met by Metropolitan Police officers when he steps off the plane

in Britain.

 

 

Under the 2000 Terrorism Act, police are able to detain

suspects for an initial 48 hours, and then, with court approval, for up to two

weeks before releasing or charging them.

 

 

Some legal experts doubt there will be enough evidence to try

any of the Britons because information gleaned from interrogation at Guantanamo

Bay would be inadmissible in a UK court.

 

 

The previous five British detainees, released last March, were

held for just a few hours by police before being released without charge. Four

have since filed lawsuits in the US, seeking pounds-6m each in damages.

 

 

In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr Straw told MPs the four

remaining British detainees would be flown back to the UK " in the next few

weeks " .

 

 

However, a Foreign Office source later told The Herald that

while " modalities " still had to be sorted out, it was possible the terror

suspects' return " could be before the end of the month " .

 

 

No 10 stressed it was up to the authorities to decide whether

the four needed to be questioned and charged, but a spokesman noted there were

" genuine security concerns " .

 

 

In a statement, the Pentagon described the detainees as " enemy

combatants " and said the British government had " accepted responsibility for

these individuals and will work to prevent them from engaging in, or otherwise

supporting, terrorist activities in the future " .

 

 

Mr Straw said the US had agreed to release the four remaining

Britons after months of " intensive and complex " negotiations. He insisted " every

practical step " would be taken to maintain national security and public safety.

 

 

It is claimed the men's release is part of a plan to radically

reduce the number of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay and create a permanent

prison at the base, to be called Camp Six, which would have space for as many as

200 detainees the US does not want released. The camp still holds 550 prisoners

from 42 countries.

 

 

There was a widespread welcome from the men's families, human

rights campaigners and MPs from all parties at their imminent release.

 

 

Amnesty International said it was " long overdue " . James Dyson,

its spokesman, added:

 

 

" The British authorities should make sure all allegations of

torture and mistreatment at Guantanamo are investigated. "

 

 

In the Commons, MPs from all sides, while welcoming the news,

criticised the Bush administration for holding prisoners for so long without

trial.

 

 

Labour's Tony Lloyd, a former Foreign Office minister, said it

represented " a dark stain on the reputation of the US and has done damage for

our country with respect to people in the Muslim world " .

 

 

John Gummer, the former Conservative environment secretary,

said the US should be urged to change its attitude to such hardline detention

which " so damages the fight against terrorism, because they have adopted there,

as I believe we are adopting here, attitudes to human rights which are the very

attitudes we are trying to stop others removing " .

 

 

Sir Menzies Campbell, for the Liberal Democrats, describing

Guantanamo Bay as a legal no-man's land, insisted the men's detention there had

" violated all legal principles " and it was a damaging episode, which should

never be repeated.

 

 

Tory Douglas Hogg suggested that if no charges were brought

against the Britons, then the government should " press the US to compensate

those nine for a clearly illegal action " .

 

 

 

 

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