Oh well

The British asked for their citizens back and now they have them back. If there is a problem then the British can deal with it. In other words, who cares?

Another of the detainees, Martin Mubanga, was allegedly assigned the job of plotting terror attacks against New York-based Jewish organizations and was apparently planning to fly to the United States when he was arrested in Zambia in 2002, according to documents obtained by NEWSWEEK. (Mubanga has denied the charges and, like the other detainees, alleges he was mistreated in U.S. custody.)

But those concerns were in effect trumped by Bush’s desire to mollify Blair, who has come under increasing domestic pressure to protect the rights of British citizens held at the controversial U.S. detention camp in Cuba. In a trip to Washington last November, and in follow-up teleconference calls that the two leaders regularly have, Blair made “personal pleas” to Bush to repatriate the British detainees, a British government official said today.

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