Guantanamo Prisoner to be Released

BBC - UK Guantanamo man 'to be freed'

A British resident is to be released from Guantanamo Bay, the Foreign Office has announced.

Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, has been held at the US detention camp in Cuba for almost five years on suspicion of links to terrorism.

In a statement, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said it had been agreed with the US authorities that he would be returned to the UK shortly.