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Today, 08 November 2009

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Yesterday, 07 November 2009

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› Hofmeyr addresses Joost

Five of nine Britons detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as terrorism suspects are to return home on Tuesday, a Home Office spokesperson told AFP.

"Yes," the spokesperson replied when asked if the five would be back in Britain during the course of the day.

BBC Online said the five would be arriving at RAF Northolt, a Royal Air Force Base northwest of London, on Tuesday evening.

On a visit to Boston on Monday, Home Secretary David Blunkett said the five — Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, Shafiq Rasul, Tarek Dergoul and Jamal al Harith — would be released "over the next 24 hours," British news media reported.

"They, when they return, will of course go through the normal process of being interviewed by the counter-terrorism branch in London and the material that has been provided will be evaluated," he said.

Four others will stay behind, however, and they will likely face trial before a US military commission.

Some 660 prisoners suspected of being Taliban or Al-Qaeda fighters are being held without charges indefinitely as "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay, a US naval base at the eastern end of Cuba.

AFP