'No death penalty' for Guantanamo Britons

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http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=740732003

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JOHN INNES


THE British government has complained to the United States about plans to try in secret two Britons held at Guantanamo Bay in front of a military commission, it emerged last night.

The Foreign Office has expressed its "strong reservations" to the US government and has made it clear it would oppose vigorously any such trial if there was any prospect of the death penalty being used.

Answering an emergency question in the Commons, Chris Mullin, a Foreign Office minister, said ministers had raised, and would continue to raise, Britain’s concerns with the US.

"We have make clear to the US that we expect the process to meet internationally accepted standards of a fair trial, and we will follow the process very carefully," he said.


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[acmavm]

1. Well, I sincerely doubt Britain will be of much help in any of Bush's

further escapades. Idiots.

[wiggle-room]

2. Ve Vill Only Kill Ze Brown People from Ze Veeker Nations

Heil Bush! Heil Blair!

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3. velcome to ze

underground

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