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| Moazzam Begg Faces Syria Terrorism Charges in UK | ||
| 2014-03-02 | ||
[An Nahar] Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg
The 45-year-old from Birmingham in central England indicated he would plead not guilty to the charges and was remanded in jug until the next hearing on March 14. Begg, who was jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on Tuesday at his home, spent three years at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba before being released without charge in 2005. He has since become an outspoken critic of the so-called "war on terror" and is outreach director of Cage, a British group which campaigns for detainees' rights.
Tahari, who was also arrested on Tuesday, denied the charge and was remanded in jug until March 14. Two men arrested on the same day, aged 20 and 36, remain in police custody on suspicion of facilitating terrorism overseas, West Midlands Police said. Begg moved to Afghanistan with his wife and three children in 2001 but fled to Pakistain after the U.S.-led invasion to topple the Taliban after the September 11 attacks. He was detained in Islamabad as an "enemy combatant" in February 2002 and taken to the Bagram prison in Afghanistan and then Guantanamo. | ||
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