Originally Posted by
ninianclark
NO THEY COULD NOT. THE LAW AS IT STOOD THEN MEANT THAT DETAILED SECURITY INFORMATION WOULD HAVE TO BE RELEASED IN COURT - THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPENED. WHICH IS WHY THE GOVT HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO OFFER THE MONEY. DURING THE ALL OF THE BLAIR / BROWN YEARS THEY NEVER THOUGHT OF INTRODUCING A LAW TO STOP IT. BUT - SINCE THE SECURITY AND JUSTICE ACT OF 2013 WAS BOUGHT INTO LAW - 3 YEARS AFTER THE COALITION CAME INTO GOVT. WHICH MEANS THAT ANY FUTURE COURT CASE BOUGHT BY ex TERRORISTS CAN BE HEARD IN PRIVATE AND AS SUCH NEGATES THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN AGAIN.
IF YOU HAD WATCHED THE DAILY POLITICS SHOW - YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD A REASONED DISCUSSION ABOUT IT - FROM MPs ON BOTH SIDES.
PS - I ALSO QUOTED Shami Chakrabarti, (then head of Liberty and politically neutral) said she was “delighted” that al-Harith and the four other detainees were being released.
“We are delighted that the five have been released, but let us not forget those that are remaining. Nor should we forget that Britain has its very own Guantanamo Bay at Belmarsh Prison, in south-east London, where 14 men have been held for up to two years without charge, or prospect of trial, on suspicion of being associated with terrorism. At long last the Americans have done the honourable thing and released their detainees.”