Kennedy (Liberal Dem MP) : repatriate terror suspects

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Guardian Newspapers Limited

Charles Kennedy today added his voice to the pressure on the prime minister to bring two British Guantanamo Bay detainees home for trial.

The Liberal Democrat leader said Mr Blair should use his "feted" status in America during a trip to the US next week to lobby President George Bush to repatriate the men for a UK trial.

His comments come after a 200-strong petition from MPs, a barrage of hostile questioning at PMQs and pressure from the media produced a small u-turn from the government.

Until last night, Downing Street had played a "softly softly" approach to the cases of Feroz Abbasi and Moazzam Begg, held for the past 18 months at the US military base in Cuba, but now the government have agreed to call for negotiations on repatriation. ---


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