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BBC News
March 1, 2017
Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed became known as "the Tipton three" - friends from the West Midlands who were among the first detainees sent to Guantanamo Bay, in early 2002, after being handed over to American forces in Afghanistan. Their lawyers filed a habeas corpus suit in 2004 that ledÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
February 25, 2017
A former Guantanamo detainee has condemned British suicide bomber Jamal al-Harith who blew himself up after joining Islamic State. Shafiq Rasul, 39, was one of the so-called “Tipton Three” held at the Cuban detention centre until March 2004 – alongside terrorist Harith. But while the trio settled backÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 22, 2017
British Guantanamo detainees: top row from left: Binyam Mohammed al Habashi, Jamil el-Banna, Omar Deghayes, Abdenour Sameur, Bisher Al Rawi, Feroz Abbasi 2nd row: Moazzam Begg, Richard Belmar, Martin Mubanga, Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Ruhal Ahmed 3rd row: Tarek Dergoul, Mohammed AlÃâà...
New York Times
January 10, 2010
Mr. Neely, an Army veteran who spent six months at the prison in 2002, sent messages to one of the freed men, Shafiq Rasul, and was astonished when Mr. Rasul replied. Their exchanges sparked a face-to-face meeting, arranged by the BBC, which will be shown on Tuesday. Mr. Neely, who has served asÃâà...
CNN
June 15, 2006
(CNN) -- Shafiq Rasul, a British citizen, says he and two friends were on a humanitarian visit to Afghanistan in 2001 when they were taken prisoner and sent to the detention center in the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Rasul alleges in a $10 million lawsuit he and three other former detaineesÃâà...
BBC News
March 16, 2004
The three - Ruhal Ahmed, 22, Asif Iqbal, 22, and Shafiq Rasul, 26, all from Tipton in the West Midlands - returned to Britain last week. They had been captured in Afghanistan, suspected of links to the Taleban, and were taken to the US camp in Cuba. The three told UK newspapers they were often beaten byÃâà...
BBC News
March 11, 2004
12 January- The first al-Qaeda prisoners are moved from detention centres in Afghanistan to the Guantanamo Bay US naval base, Cuba. It emerges that there are Britons being held there. 27 January - The family of Guantanamo detainee Shafiq Rasul, 24, from Tipton, in the West Midlands, plead for him toÃâà...
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