Judge says Al Qaeda suspects unfit for trial

Spain has dropped the extradition of two British residents formerly held as terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay. High Court judge Baltasar Garzon shelved the case of two inmates in after medical reports from British authorities declared them to be unfit to stand trial after suffering years of abuse and torture, according to their lawyers. The pair, Jamil el-Banna and Omar Deghayes, were accused of belonging to a Spanish cell of al Qaeda, but their lawyers say that el-Banna had never been to Spain and Deghayes had suffered a case of mistaken identity.

March 6, 2008

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