U.K. requests return of terrorism suspect held by U.S. for seven years without charge

Published 5 January 2012

The British government has requested that the United States return Yunus Rahmatullah, a twenty-nine year-old Pakistani originally captured by British troops in Iraq; Rahmatullah is suspected of being a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group behind the Mumbai attacks; the British military handed him over to American troops, which have kept him in detention in Afghanistan for more than seven years without trial; last month a British Court of Appeal granted Rahmatullah a habeas corpus request and ruled that Britain should ensure that he is released

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