[aldo_14]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4851478.stm

[q]Telegrams sent by the British security service led to the "extraordinary rendition" of two UK residents now in Guantanamo Bay, BBC News has learned.

Flight details sent to US authorities allowed Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil al-Banna to be arrested in Gambia.

The UK government has always said it opposes "extraordinary rendition" - secret flights taking terror suspects for interrogation in other countries.

The Foreign Office denies requesting the men's detention.

Mr al-Rawi and Mr al-Banna were arrested at Gatwick airport in November 2002, BBC2's Newsnight has learned.

British intelligence then sent US authorities a telegram saying one of them had been carrying an object that could have been used as part of an improvised explosive device.

The men were later released after MI5 found the device to be an innocent battery charger - but this time the US authorities were not informed.
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Yay! Our government are still lying hypocrites...

[Blue Lion]

I wuv governments.

[karajorma]

So the British goverment effected the imprisonment, rendition and probably torture of one of the men they had actually hired to spy on islamic terrorism because he had a battery charger on him.

What a ****ing joke our government really is.

[Herra Tohtori]

Very soon they'll start sending babies to Guantanamo because they might do something stupid later on, including acts of terrorism. 

Seriously, a frickin' battery recharger got these guys into there?

Heck, a Sony Walkman *can* be used as a part of an improvised detonation device. Or even better, just get an old mechanical alarm clock, duct tape a piezo igniter onto the mechanism and set it off; this too *can* be used as a part of an improvised detonation device. Almost anything *can*be used as a part for improvized detonation device. Soon you'll not be able to travel with a, say, LED light key ring without some authorities tackling you down, calling a bomb disposal team to render the two 3V lithium batteries harmless after you have been chucked into plane that takes you into Guano Bay or something like that and there you are as an illegal combatant (because they say so) with practically no rights whatsoever.

Anyway, if the security services aregetting this paranoid about things that might happen we'd better off back in the stone age. Or better still, back in the woods.

What a waste of time, money and dignity it was to ever land and ries up to two feet. World sucks as it is.

[Janos]

Very soon they'll start sending babies to Guantanamo because they might do something stupid later on, including acts of terrorism. 

Seriously, a frickin' battery recharger got these guys into there?

Heck, a Sony Walkman *can* be used as a part of an improvised detonation device. Or even better, just get an old mechanical alarm clock, duct tape a piezo igniter onto the mechanism and set it off; this too *can* be used as a part of an improvised detonation device. Almost anything *can*be used as a part for improvized detonation device. Soon you'll not be able to travel with a, say, LED light key ring without some authorities tackling you down, calling a bomb disposal team to render the two 3V lithium batteries harmless after you have been chucked into plane that takes you into Guano Bay or something like that and there you are as an illegal combatant (because they say so) with practically no rights whatsoever.

Anyway, if the security services aregetting this paranoid about things that might happen we'd better off back in the stone age. Or better still, back in the woods.

What a waste of time, money and dignity it was to ever land and ries up to two feet. World sucks as it is.

There is always a way. It requires either masses or one man, a rifle, a bullet and a steady aim. It's always there. It has been there for as long as societies have existed. Don't forget that.

Vote from the rooftops.