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Guantanamo Briton Moazzam Begg remanded in custody on Syria charge | |
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The former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg was remanded in custody today charged with Syria-related terror offences. | |
Begg, 45, of Boden Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, denied the charges and will appear next at the Old Bailey on 14 March. He is accused of providing terrorist training and funding terrorism overseas. | |
Begg appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court alongside a woman, Gerrie Tahari, 44, of Ashway, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, who is charged with facilitating terrorism overseas. | |
She denied the charge and was also remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on the same day as Begg. | |
Both were arrested on Tuesday. | |
Two other men arrested the same day remain in police custody. They are a 36-year-old man from Shirley, Solihull, and a 20-year-old man - the son of Tahari - from Sparkhill, Birmingham, who were held on suspicion of facilitating terrorism overseas. | |
Begg was held in the US-run military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for nearly three years. | Begg was held in the US-run military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for nearly three years. |
He moved to Afghanistan with his family in 2001 before taking them to Pakistan in 2002. | |
He was detained in Islamabad, Pakistan, as an "enemy combatant" in January 2002 and was taken to the Bagram internment centre for about a year before being transferred to Guantanamo. | |
He was released along with three others in January 2005 and was allowed to return to the UK, where he was arrested by the police before being released without charge. | |
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