The release of Britons detained at Gitmo who were captured on the battle fields of Afghanistan may hold the key answers to many questions about who the TERRORISTS are who bombed London. As you can see below in thei January article from the BBC there were several who were released into British custody after being received from Gitmo. Looks like a good place to start as any !
J.R.
2001
7 October - British and American forces invade Afghanistan.
2002
12 January - The first al-Qaeda prisoners are moved from detention centres in Afghanistan to the Guantanamo Bay US naval base, Cuba. It emerges that there are Britons being held there.
27 January - The family of Guantanamo detainee Shafiq Rasul, 24, from Tipton, in the West Midlands, plead for him to be returned to Britain for questioning. He is in the camp with fellow Britons, Asif Iqbal, 20, also from Tipton, and Feroz Abbasi, 22, from Croydon, Surrey.
19 February - Foreign Office announces that five of the nine British men being held in Guantanamo Bay are to be released. They are named as Ruhal Ahmed, Tarek Dergoul, Jamal Udeen (also known as Jamal Al Harith), Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul.
9 March - The five arrive back in London to be questioned, though Jamal Udeen is soon released without charge.
9 February - A legal team representing Mr Iqbal, 20, and Mr Rasul, 24, calls on the US government to either justify their detention of the two men by bringing charges, or free them.
6 March - Lawyers for Mr Abbasi seek a judicial review of the government's co-operation with the US.
10 March - Tarek Dergoul, Shafiq Rasul, Ruhal Ahmed, and Asif Iqbal are released without charge.
They want to force Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to arrange legal representation for Mr Abbasi.
15 March - Mr Abbasi loses his High Court battle against the government.
1 July - Three senior judges give permission for a full hearing of Mr Abbasi's claims that the government is not protecting his rights while he is held by the US at Camp X-Ray.
6 November - The Court of Appeal rules that Mr Straw cannot be compelled to intervene over the detention by the US of Mr Abbasi.
2003
26 February - It emerges that Moazzam Begg, from Birmingham, is now a detainee at Guantanamo Bay. He is reported to have been seized in Pakistan.
4 July - It emerges that two Britons, Mr Begg and Mr Abbasi, could be among the first detainees to face trial by secretive military tribunals.
18 July - The US agrees to suspend the threat of secret military hearings against the nine Britons being held pending talks between the two nations.
20 November - The immediate fate of the British detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be resolved "soon", Prime Minister Tony Blair says following talks with US President George Bush.
6 July - The US was not being "unreasonable" in refusing to release the last Britons at Guantanamo Bay, says Tony Blair, adding that he's not sure the security "machinery" is in place in the UK to ensure the detainees posed no threat.
2005
11 January - The remaining four Britons held by the US in Guantanamo Bay will be returned to the UK "in the next few weeks", Jack Straw announces.
25 January - The Pentagon confirms it has transferred four British detainees into UK custody.
They arrive back at RAF Northolt and are immediately arrested under the Terrorism Act.
26 January - Martin Mubanga, now 32, Feroz Abbasi, 24, Richard Belmar, 25, and Moazzam Begg, 36, are freed without charge after police questioning at London's Paddington Green Police station.
They are reunited with their families.
A US official says Britain has undertaken to monitor the four.
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