Monday - February 02, 2009

British Guantanamo inmate to be returned to UK as hunger strike brings him ‘close to death’.

Good grief Charlie Brown.  This island doesn’t have enough problems.  On the other hand, we won’t have to deal with it in the US.

Oh heaven forbid we let him actually starve.  Which could be a bad idea come to think about it.  He’d then become a martyr. They’d do a play based on his worthless life.  Why not?  I think (?) there was a play based on Bobby Sands. IRA terrorist. 

That headline btw is VERY misleading.  He IS NOT a Brit.  Why does the msm do this kind of thing?  He was a “resident” so he may have been a Brit resident.
But the headline reads otherwise.  I’ve noticed they do that a lot.
Anyway ... Brit liberals wanted us to close Guantanamo and OB is trying to do that.  So now they are about to get one of these guys. 

He’s a “student” at 30?  Night school?  What’s his subject I wonder. Chemistry?  Bombs 101?

I do not like these folks, I do not trust them.  Many Brits don’t either and I have a feeling that it’s being done without any thought given to public safety or even what the public wants.

Is this guy innocent? Guilty?  I really don’t know.  But I am pretty certain that anyone can make a claim of “torture” and the left will pick it up and run with it.
They’ll damn the Americans and assume automatically that Americans are doing something wrong and not being truthful.  They will assume our guilt and tell a world of sheep that the US is in violation of this and that, and our enemies will eat it all up while planning their next attack.

I should be careful least I give the wrong idea.  I have not done any sort of survey and am not in a position to do that if I could.  I base my opinion on what I hear from ppl and most of what I hear sure does not approve of bringing these folks here. 

British Guantanamo inmate to be returned to UK as hunger strike brings him ‘close to death’

By Richard Shears
Last updated at 6:50 PM on 01st February 2009

UK resident Binyam Mohamed claims he only confessed to being a terrorist under torture.

A British resident said to be just ‘skin and bone’ and close to death in the notorious Guantanamo Bay camp is to be flown back to the UK within days.

West London student Binyam Mohamed, 30, who has been on a hunger strike since January 5 after being held in the prison camp for four years, has collapsed several times in recent days.

His immediate repatriation to Britain is being arranged as US authorities face a political row should a British fatality occur in the prison.

Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley, an American military lawyer who last week saw Mohamed in his cell - where he has been kept under solitary confinement - described how he was wasting away.

‘The real worry is that he comes out in a coffin,’ she said.

The case of Ethiopian-born Mohamed has been fraught with difficulties for both the British Government and the Americans.

He claims that while he confessed to being an al-Qaeda terrorist, the admission was forced from him under torture.

Among the false admissions extracted by a torture team, he says, was that he had plotted a radioactive bomb attack on the US. And while he had gone to Afghanistan, it was to try to kick his drug habit and find out whether the Taliban had a good Islamic government.

Although President Obama has resolved to close Guantanamo within a year and find countries that will be willing to accept the prisoners, Mohamed decided not to spend another 12 months in the prison and has kept up his hunger strike for more than three weeks.

He became a temporary resident in Britain at the age of 15 in 1994 when he sought political asylum. He was told he could remain in the country until his case was resolved.

But in 2002 he was captured in Pakistan while trying to return to London on a false British passport.

Mohamed has told his lawyers that MI5 were aware of his torture - and along with his imminent release a judicial review in the High Court will determine whether the British Government has an obligation to hand over documents that could support his claims of ill treatment.

His hunger strike and pressure on the government over the torture claims has now led to the decision to fly him back to Britain. His British lawyer, Mr Clive Stafford Smith, says he understands that Mohamed’s release is ‘imminent’.

The decision to return him to the UK flies in the face of Foreign Secretary David Milliband’s insistence last week that Britain would refuse to accept any more terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay.

Britain has taken in 13 former inmates - almost half of the 27 that have been returned to the EU - and Mr Milliband said that the country had ‘done its bit’.

HUNGER STRIKE

Posted by peiper     on 02/02/2009 at 07:46 AM   
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