UK drops terror case against ex-Guantanamo inmate
Source: Associated Press
UK drops terror case against ex-Guantanamo inmate
By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press | October 1, 2014 | Updated: October 1, 2014 11:35am
LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors dropped terrorism charges Wednesday against a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who is a high-profile advocate for the rights of terror suspects.
Moazzam Begg accused authorities of "demonizing" the Muslim community after he walked free, just days before he had been due to stand trial on seven counts relating to the war in Syria. In a last-minute reversal, prosecutors acknowledged that new evidence had emerged that undermined the case.
"I think it shows that we have a knee-jerk reaction. It shows that little has changed since the beginning of the early days of the war on terror," Begg said after his release from Belmarsh Prison.
Begg has been in prison for seven months awaiting trial. He had been due to go on trial next week accused of attending a terrorism training camp in Syria in 2012-2013 and of funding terrorism, among other charges.
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I can't keep track of my governments constantly shifting allegiances. 
Begg's attorney, Ben Emmerson, told the court that his client's stance on Syria wasn't unlike that of the British government.
"Mr. Begg did not train anyone for the purposes of terrorism as defined in the 2001 act," he said. "Mr. Begg says he was involved in training young men to defend civilians against war crimes by the (Bashar) Assad regime."
