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Lord Goldsmith's extraordinary
attack: 'Bush's war on terror is wrong'
JONATHAN OLIVER
UK
Daily Mail
Sunday December 9, 2007
The Government's former top legal adviser last night
launched an outspoken attack on President Bush's concept of a
"war on terror", branding it "dangerous",
"counterproductive" and "wrong".
Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General who ruled the Iraq war was
lawful, attacked the US's indefinite detention of suspected "combatants"
at Guantanamo Bay.
His remarks, which follow the release of four inmates who had
been British residents, will put further pressure on Britain's
strained relations with the Bush White House.
Lord Goldsmith insisted Downing Street had been working hard
behind the scenes for years to secure the repatriation of Guantanamo
inmates.
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He said: "We did take a principled stand. It took longer
to get them back than I would have liked."
The former law officer, who stepped down when Gordon Brown became
PM in June, said the three former prisoners who are now returning
to the UK (the fourth has gone to his native Saudi Arabia) should
be charged only if there is evidence against them under British
law.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "They
should be treated in the same way as anyone else who is here and
not agree to some condition just because the Americans have asked
for it."
Full
article here.
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