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Guantanamo Four "Coming Home"
The government has fought long and hard to secure the release of four British "residents" from Guantanamo Bay. It worked, and now the four are due back in the UK, where a warm media welcome and lucrative speaking tours doubtless await. Except the four have no real connection with the UK.
The four lived in Britain for a while, but weren't citizens. They took refuge in Britain, but decided that they would be safer in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Gambia.
One might disagree strongly with the Guantanamo Bay system, or one might believe it is an imperfect means of detaining potentially dangerous people during a particularly messy war. But how did this four end up being "Ours?" Here's Richard Littlejohn:
"The soppy Sarah Teather (Lib-Dem MP for Brent East) worked herself up into a lather of selfrighteous indig-nation over the detention of her 'constituent', who is linked to Osama Bin Laden's European "ambassador".
"He's not your constituent, pet. He's not even allowed to vote. And if he were, it would have to be a postal vote since he was in The Gambia when the Americans felt his collar. Since then, he's been "resident" at Camp Gitmo.
"Why the hell should we care what happens to any of them? We've got enough home-grown Islamo-nutters of our own.
"Now we're going to have to house them, feed them, ply them with benefits and spend a small fortune on round-the-clock surveillance. It's not as if the anti-terror boys haven't got anything better to do."
