Looks like the coalition of the billing got a bit of heat taken off of them by George W.
From the BBC
All four Britons held by the US in Guantanamo Bay will be returned to the UK within weeks, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told the Commons on Tuesday.
Moazzam Begg, from Birmingham, and Martin Mubanga, Richard Belmar and Feroz Abbasi, from London, have been held by the US for almost three years.
They were detained in the Cuban camp as part of the US-led "war on terror".
Mr Straw said the US had agreed to release the four after "intensive and complex discussions" over security.
He said the government had been negotiating the return of the detainees since 2003...
...Egyptian-born Mamdouh Habib, 48, from Sydney, had been held in Cuba for three years after being captured near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, but will be released without charge.
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But they are not out of the woods yet. Britain will decide if if the people should be arrested under their Terrorism Act 2000.
But he added: "Once they are back in the UK, the police will consider whether to arrest them under the Terrorism Act 2000 for questioning in connection with possible terrorist activity."
Truly down is up and black is white. Releasing the men before charging them.
Needless to say the fact that torture occurred will continue to dog the governments.
But we must ask why it is only people from coalition partner countries being released and what is the timetable for the release of all others. What kind of Payola is the US government paying to other countries to keep their citizens at Gitmo?
Let the questions be raised for Abu Gonzales. The world deserves a reply.