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 Brits Refuse to Accept Gitmo Gulag Prisoners: Report 
  
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 IRNA - Oct 3, 2006 
  
 UK refuses to accept return of Guantanamo prisoners: report 
  
 The US has offered to return nearly all British residents held at 
 Guantanamo Bay but the UK has refused to accept them, according to 
 reports Tuesday. 
  
 The Guardian newspaper said it had seen documents that show US 
 authorities are demanding that the detainees be kept under 24-hour 
 surveillance if they are set free but that the restrictions have been 
 dismissed by Britain as unnecessary and unworkable. 
  
 "Although all are accused of terrorist involvement, Britain says there 
 is no intelligence to warrant the measures Washington wants, and it 
 lacks the resources to implement them," the report said. 
  
 It also quoted the head of counter-terrorism at the Home Office in 
 London as saying British residents at Guantanamo, who are believed to 
 number at least nine, "do not pose a sufficient threat." In addition, 
 senior British officials were reported to be insisting that the 
 residents, unlike the six British nationalists who have already been 
 freed from the concentration camp, have no legal right of return. 
  
 The documents were said to have shown months of secret wrangling between 
 the US and the UK over the prisoners, some of whom have been held at the 
 military prison for nearly five years. 
  
 The Guardian said that it was told by a senior source that the UK 
 government is interested in accepting only one man -- Bisher al-Rawi -- 
 who is now known to have helped the country's MI5 security services. 
  
 Lawyers for the British residents have accused the US of still 
 ill-treating the detainees, including four who are said to have been 
 subjected to extreme temperatures varying from freezing cold to high heat. 
  
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