OGC_response_ghost_detainees_release_3_pages_177-201_part_8_of_26.pdf

consistent with the overriding need to protect the public from terrorist threats,'' the report said. Nine British nationals held at the detention facility had been released by January 2005, but the committee said it believed another nine former British residents remained held at Guantdnamo, which was set up by the United States in 2002. Human rights lawyers previously had said they were aware of eight ex-British residents being detained at the camp...