MI5 ‘tried to recruit’ Guantanamo Britons
Sean O’Neill
Two British residents held in Guantanamo Bay for more than four years were detained by the CIA after MI5 failed to recruit them as paid informants, according to documents released in the United States.
The extent of MI5’s involvement with Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna — including offers of new lives and new identities financed by the British taxpayer — is detailed in papers released under United States freedom of information laws.
British intelligence sent telegrams to the American authorities, alerting them to the travel plans of Mr al-Rawi, 39, and Mr el-Banna, 44, on the day that they were detained in November 2002. Both men were picked up on arrival in The Gambia, taken to Afghanistan and then put on a secret CIA flight to the Guantanamo Bay internment camp in Cuba.
Mr al-Rawi, 39, was released last weekend and returned to Britain without being arrested or questioned by police. But Mr el-Banna, 43, remains incarcerated at Camp Delta.
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Two British residents held in Guantanamo Bay for more than four years were detained by the CIA after MI5 failed to recruit them as paid informants, according to documents released in the United States.
The extent of MI5’s involvement with Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna — including offers of new lives and new identities financed by the British taxpayer — is detailed in papers released under United States freedom of information laws.
British intelligence sent telegrams to the American authorities, alerting them to the travel plans of Mr al-Rawi, 39, and Mr el-Banna, 44, on the day that they were detained in November 2002. Both men were picked up on arrival in The Gambia, taken to Afghanistan and then put on a secret CIA flight to the Guantanamo Bay internment camp in Cuba.
Mr al-Rawi, 39, was released last weekend and returned to Britain without being arrested or questioned by police. But Mr el-Banna, 43, remains incarcerated at Camp Delta.
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