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| Police given more time to quiz Moazzam Begg and other terror suspects | |
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| Police have been given an extra five days to question a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was arrested on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offences. | |
| Moazzam Begg, 45 was arrested along with a 36-year-old man, a woman, 44, and a man, aged 20. | |
| He was arrested on suspicion of attending a terrorist training camp and facilitating terrorism overseas. | |
| Police said searches were continuing at three of the homes of those arrested. | |
| Detectives from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit said all four people were arrested as part of a "pre-planned operation", and the force stressed "there had been no immediate threat to public safety". | |
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| Mr Begg, who was arrested in Hall Green in Birmingham, is a British citizen who moved to Afghanistan with his family in 2001, before moving again to Pakistan in 2002 when the Afghanistan war started. | |
| He was arrested in Islamabad in January 2002 and taken to Bagram internment centre in Afghanistan for about a year before being transferred to the Guantanamo Bay US detention camp in Cuba. | |
| He was released in January 2005 with three other British citizens and returned to the UK. Mr Begg, who is now a director of campaign group Cage, which helps the families of people who have been detained, has never been charged with an offence. | |
| He has always maintained that he was only involved in charity work and has never been involved in any kind of terrorist activity. | |
| Mr Begg was arrested on Tuesday and West Midlands police previously said that naming him did "not imply any guilt". | |
| A spokeswoman added: "We are confirming this name as a result of the anticipated high public interest." | |
| The other three people - a man, 36, from Shirley, in Solihull, and a 44-year-old woman, and a man, aged 20, both from Sparkhill, in Birmingham - are being held on suspicion of facilitating terrorism overseas. |