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AFP: EU awaits US data before move on Guantanamo inmates

BRUSSELS (AFP) — The European Union expressed reservations Thursday about hosting Guantanamo inmates until the United States addresses EU security concerns, with no decision on accepting them likely for months.

A high-level EU delegation will travel to Washington on March 16-17 to find out exactly how US authorities decided that around 60 of the more than 240 prisoners could be released and why they cannot be hosted by the United States.

IHT: British court rules Muslim cleric can be deported

IHT: British court rules Muslim cleric can be deported

LONDON: A Palestinian-born cleric described by British security officials as “a significant international terrorist” lost the latest round in a seven-year battle to remain in Britain as a refugee Wednesday when the highest court in Britain ruled that he could be deported to Jordan, where he was convicted in absentia in a terrorist bombing and a bomb plot in the late 1990s.