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Blair asks Bush to return British Guantanamo detainees

LONDON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has asked US President George W Bush for the return of four Britons still held in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, a lawyer acting for one of the detainees said on Saturday. “It has emerged from the government papers that have been filed in the court that within the last month Tony Blair has made a personal plea to George Bush,” Louise Christian, a lawyer representing detainee Feroz Abbasi, told Sky News. “The families will be enormously heartened... and will very much be hoping that this will result in the four remaining British citizens being brought back very soon,” she added. The court papers form part of the British government’s defence against a legal action brought by lawyers for two of the British detainees seeking a court order forcing Britain to formally demand their return. Abbasi, Martin Mubanga, Richard Belmar and Moazzam Begg are among some 600 people held without charge by the United States at the US base in Cuba since the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. A spokesman for Blair’s office at 10 Downing Street refused to comment on whether or not the prime minister had made a direct appeal to Bush. reuters

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