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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Ungoed-Thomas

US leant on Britain to jail detainees freed from Guantánamo Bay

Leg shackles are seen on the floor at Camp 6 detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Leg shackles are seen on the floor at Camp 6 detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photograph: Reuters

Tony Blair’s government was given special access to US intelligence files on Guantánamo Bay which revealed there was no credible evidence against the British detainees, a new book has claimed.

US officials hoped that any British detainees released from the notorious prison camp would be detained once they set foot in the UK or placed under strict surveillance. But officials who examined files on British detainees in a meeting in Washington in February 2004 found there was no significant evidence against them.

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