Guantanamo prisoners tied to London bomb probe
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Prisoners at the
Guantanamo base in Cuba provided important information in connection
with last summer's London transit bombings that the United States
shared with authorities in the United Kingdom, the general in charge
of the prison said.
The July 7 suicide bombings by four young British Islamists on
three underground trains and a double-decker bus in central London
during the morning rush hour killed 52 people and wounded more than
700 others.
"After the attacks in London, there were a number of questions
asked trying to understand who these people were and where they had
been," Army Maj. Gen. Jay Hood, who oversees the Guantanamo detention
operation, said in an interview late on Wednesday.
"A significant number of the men we're holding here, a number, have
lived in London, have lived in the United Kingdom," Hood said.
"And so where we could answer their questions and provide
background on movements, travels, financing, communications, means of
communications, recruitment, training, that sort of thing, I think we
have played an important role."
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