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Britain
Freed Guantanamo detainees to sue British intelligence
2008-04-20
Eight men freed from Guantanamo Bay are looking to sue the British intelligence services for damages, the Daily Mail said on Saturday citing lawyers and one of the former detainees.
Came up with that idea all on their own, of course, no help at all from the progressive types ...
The daily newspaper said two separate writs had been issued on behalf of the eight - five British nationals and three with residency rights - claiming the complicity of the domestic and overseas security services with the Americans. Lawyers acting on behalf of Libyan national Omar Deghayes, Jordanian Jamil el-Banna and Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi, have issued the first writ at LondonÂ’s High Court.

Deghayes and el-Banna were released from the US-run facility in Cuba last December. Al Rawi was set free earlier this year. Spain dropped an attempt to extradite them to face terrorism charges in March. The second writ is on behalf of British nationals Moazzam Begg, from Birmingham, west central England, a trio of friends from nearby Tipton, Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Ruhal Ahmed, and Londoner Richard Belmar.

The three men from Tipton unsuccessfully sued their former captors for alleged human and religious rights violations in US courts. The case is now being taken to the US Supreme Court. Begg was quoted as saying that the case would centre on British intelligence’s “general behaviour and complicity in the abuse of British citizens’ from their detention, interrogation and transfer to Guantanamo”.

Lawyer Irene Membhard, from London law firm Birnberg Pierce, confirmed to the newspaper that the writs had been issued. “Service is not imminent but watch this space within the next two months,” she was quoted as saying.
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