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09-26-2015, 11:45 AM
Last UK Guantanamo prisoner to be freed, Foreign ****** says
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAeNNwT.img?h=100&w=100&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=585&y=206Aamer, 46, will be returned to Britain once a 30-day **tice period has expired, the Foreign ****** said. “In terms of next steps, we understand that the US government has **tified Congress of this decision and once that **tice period has been concluded, Mr Aamer will be returned to the UK,” a Foreign ****** spokesman said. US officials have previously alleged that Aamer had ties to convicted terrorists. In 2007, a senior US official said Aamer had shared an apartment in London in the late 1990s with Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the United States charged over the Sept. 11 attacks, and had lived on a stipend from Osama bin Laden. He was detained by anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan in 2001 after the US invasion and handed over to US troops. Detained at the military prison in Cuba since 2002, Aamer has never been charged **r stood trial and was cleared for release in 2007. Aamer, who is married to a Briton, was volunteering for a charity in Afghanistan when he was captured in December 2001 and moved to Guantanamo Bay in February 2002. American officials alleged that Aamer had ties to convicted terrorists. 'Inhumane' treatment UK Prime Minister David Cameron raised Aamer’s case with Obama when he visited the White House in January following pressure from British MPs and celebrities, including Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters. British lawmakers have consistently condemned the treatment of Aamer as "inhuman". "The government has regularly raised Mr Aamer's case with US authorities and we support President Obama's commitment to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay." a British Foreign ****** spokesman said. Aamer’s British lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, said the US decision was good news, "albeit about 13 years too late". Although Obama pledged to close the prison when he campaigned for ****** in 2008 - and issued an executive order to close it by January 22, 2010 upon taking ****** - he has struggled to do so, in part due to opposition from Congress and reluctance by other countries to take in the detainees eligible for transfer. Others, however, need to be detained indefinitely, said US Defense Secretary Ash Carter. "If they're **t locked up in Guantanamo Bay, they need to be locked up somewhere. So we are looking at places in the United States, prisons and other places, to which these people can be moved," Carter said on September 1. 'Gross human rights abuses' Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has said that the US facility is “emblematic of the gross human rights abuses perpetrated by the US government in the name of terrorism” and has been calling for its closure. “The indefinite and arbitrary nature of the circumstances of their detention has led to a steep decline in the mental and physical health of many incarcerated at Guantánamo. There have been numerous suicide attempts and hunger strikes," the group has **ted. (FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP and REUTERS)
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAeNNwT.img?h=100&w=100&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=585&y=206Aamer, 46, will be returned to Britain once a 30-day **tice period has expired, the Foreign ****** said. “In terms of next steps, we understand that the US government has **tified Congress of this decision and once that **tice period has been concluded, Mr Aamer will be returned to the UK,” a Foreign ****** spokesman said. US officials have previously alleged that Aamer had ties to convicted terrorists. In 2007, a senior US official said Aamer had shared an apartment in London in the late 1990s with Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the United States charged over the Sept. 11 attacks, and had lived on a stipend from Osama bin Laden. He was detained by anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan in 2001 after the US invasion and handed over to US troops. Detained at the military prison in Cuba since 2002, Aamer has never been charged **r stood trial and was cleared for release in 2007. Aamer, who is married to a Briton, was volunteering for a charity in Afghanistan when he was captured in December 2001 and moved to Guantanamo Bay in February 2002. American officials alleged that Aamer had ties to convicted terrorists. 'Inhumane' treatment UK Prime Minister David Cameron raised Aamer’s case with Obama when he visited the White House in January following pressure from British MPs and celebrities, including Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters. British lawmakers have consistently condemned the treatment of Aamer as "inhuman". "The government has regularly raised Mr Aamer's case with US authorities and we support President Obama's commitment to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay." a British Foreign ****** spokesman said. Aamer’s British lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, said the US decision was good news, "albeit about 13 years too late". Although Obama pledged to close the prison when he campaigned for ****** in 2008 - and issued an executive order to close it by January 22, 2010 upon taking ****** - he has struggled to do so, in part due to opposition from Congress and reluctance by other countries to take in the detainees eligible for transfer. Others, however, need to be detained indefinitely, said US Defense Secretary Ash Carter. "If they're **t locked up in Guantanamo Bay, they need to be locked up somewhere. So we are looking at places in the United States, prisons and other places, to which these people can be moved," Carter said on September 1. 'Gross human rights abuses' Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has said that the US facility is “emblematic of the gross human rights abuses perpetrated by the US government in the name of terrorism” and has been calling for its closure. “The indefinite and arbitrary nature of the circumstances of their detention has led to a steep decline in the mental and physical health of many incarcerated at Guantánamo. There have been numerous suicide attempts and hunger strikes," the group has **ted. (FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP and REUTERS)