DOING AL QAEDA'S RECRUITING FOR THEM?:

Release of inmates from Guantanamo leaves Britain facing a security headache: Intelligence service draws up surveillance plans after ministers request US to release ‘enemy combatants’ with British residency undefined (Sean O’Neill, Michael Evans and Tim Reid, 8/08/07, Times of London)

MI5 is to draw up detailed contingency plans for the return of five Guantanamo Bay inmates to Britain, including one accused of having trained at al-Qaeda camps to carry out terrorist attacks in the West.

David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, and Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, announced a policy U-turn yesterday by formally asking the US for the release of the five from Camp Delta. The men will be placed under surveillance and could have terrorist control orders imposed on them if they are thought to be a threat to national security.

A United States military indictment alleges that Binyam Mohammed received firearms and explosives training alongside the shoebomber Richard Reid, was lectured by Osama bin Laden and was given a terrorist mission by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 atrocities.