Guantanamo Bay Britons arrested
Evening Standard
Three British residents held without charge or trial at the US Guantanamo Bay detention centre for several years have arrived back in the UK.
Two of them were arrested shortly before they landed at Luton Airport, police said.
Jamil el-Banna, Omar Deghayes and Abdennour Samuer arrived on board a charter jet from the camp in Cuba, the former detainees' lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, said.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said two of the men, whom he described as aged 34, from London, and 38, from Sussex, were arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
They were being taken to a central London police station to be interviewed by detectives, he said.
The third man, aged 45, from London, was detained but not arrested under Schedule 7 Port and Border Controls within the Terrorism Act 2000 and taken to a police station in Bedfordshire.
The spokesman said: "All the men will be medically examined by a forensic medical examiner to ensure that they are fit to be detained and interviewed by police.
"As is normal practice each man will have access to a solicitor of his choice.
"Police are conducting investigations into the cases of each man on an individual basis. Their inquiries are being carried out, as they must be, strictly in accordance with UK law."