Then why were they freed? Because of increasing political pressure on Guantanamo. From the Times Online, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
The four Britons sent home from Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday and set free from police custody last night still pose a terrorist threat, the United States said. Lieutenant Commander Flex Plexico, a Pentagon spokesman, said: "We continue to believe that these individuals pose a significant threat. British authorities have assured us that they will take the necessary steps to address the threat posed by these individuals."
Yeah, if precedent is anything to go by, these worthies released frm gitmo will in all probability rejoin the ranks of holy thugs marching for allah's glory.
These gasholers who'd twist, use and abuse our compassion, generosity, magnanimity and sense of fairplay to their twisted ends whilst giving away nothing of the sort in retun should the tables have been turned, deserve every bit of sh*t they get in this world and the next.
With any luck, they've implanted a chip in their neck and can follow them around once they get out. :)
The worst fact about this whole affair in the UK is that there has been little or no debate on the Issue of why the Hell these men ended up in US custody in the First place! Just because they were held outside official Geneva mandate charters, makes people over here think that they are therefore just prisoners of conscience. The whole debate over here is run on a leftist ideological slant. There is no real news site in the UK that is willing to ruffle the feathers of the leftist multicultural crowd, and how can you with them throwing around terms like rascist and so on if one does complain. easiest way to block any debate on the subject! Who would you rather have living next door - a rapist/murderer or a Jihadist who has no respect for the western concept of morality or international law! the most complicit sector of society is the Muslim part, they have not uttered one word against these men, they dont question their motives or actions - as if it was normal and acceptable! Myself i know of few people who go to Afghanistan on Holiday (yours truely accepted - though you quickly find out that there is little to do or see)and i doubt they were there just by accident visiting a friend in the local Taliban labor club! i wonder if is possible for me to do Hijra from the UK?
When they go out and kill some innocent Brits, we'll be damned for releasing them! We're damned no matter what we do. It simply astounds me that so many people in the world actually sympathize with these demonic butchers.
When they're not off fighting a jihad somewhere in the world, they will pen their memoirs and become filthy rich. The world eagerly awaits their forthcoming lies of the torture and mistreatment they suffered at the hands of the evil Americans. Innocent men, no less! Poor, persecuted darlings. Give them a big hug and kick in the teeth for me.
I have a friend, who lives in Leeds, England and is surrounded by Muslims who commit the most horrendous of crimes including honor killings. It his contention that the Muslims (and they are a community despite their country of origin) have the goods on Tony Blair.
English politics has a long history of sexual scandals from adultery to pedophilia.
Blair has bent over backwards for the Muslims, to the point of extending hate crime laws, to make it unlawful to say anything negative about Islam or Islamics, even if it is the truth.
The British media never mentions that the perp is Muslim or that the crime is muslim specific, and they never breathe a word of honor killings, Muslim spousal abuse, Muslim gang rape and racism.
Here's one of the latest
You must understand that in the above Asian means Muslim, not chinese or Philipinno.
Perhaps now you all can understand the political reason why these "Brits" were released from Gitmo.
And I put Brits in sneer quotes, because no Muslim can be a true citizen of any country, only of the Ummah.
I doubt that an American Muslim pledges Allegiance to the US, even under God, as his allegiance can only be to the Ummah and Allah.