Detainee Alleging Torture to Be Sent to Britain, Source Says

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Source: Washington Post

Detainee Alleging Torture to Be Sent to Britain, Source Says

By Peter Finn and Julie Tate
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 20, 2009; Page A07

A former British resident held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be flown home early next week, marking the first transfer of a Guantanamo detainee by the Obama administration, according to a source involved in the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the subject.

The British government had pressed the new administration to make the case of Binyam Mohammed a priority. The release of the Ethiopian native could come as early as Monday, the day Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is scheduled to visit the military facility with top Justice Department officials who are leading a review of the cases of the approximately 245 detainees held there.

Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, said that "as a matter of long-standing policy, we do not discuss detainee transfers and releases until they occur." Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said the United States "is continuing to engage actively" with British officials on Mohammed. They are also discussing another former British resident, Shaker Aamer, a Saudi detainee married to a British woman, but U.S. officials speaking on the condition of anonymity said they regard him as "dangerous" and unlikely to be released.

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1. The credibility of US officials....

to declare anyone anything, including "dangerous" is not just ZERO,
its become a resounding testimonial to the opposite.

They are also discussing another former British resident, Shaker Aamer, a Saudi
detainee married to a British woman, but U.S. officials speaking on the condition
of anonymity said they regard him as "dangerous" and unlikely to be released.

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2. "We did not consider that a democracy governed by the rule of law

would expect a court in another democracy to suppress a summary of the evidence . . . relevant to allegations of torture and cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment, politically embarrassing though it might be," Justices John Thomas and David Lloyd Jones wrote in a ruling.