Negotiations on the return of nine British captives of Guantanamo failed to their homeland

Negotiations on the return of nine British captives of Guantanamo failed to their homeland, the British newspaper The Sunday Times reports on Sunday.

With reference to sources on the sidelines of negotiations between the officials of the Pentagon and the British lawyers led by the Prosecutor General Lord Goldsmith, the publication writes that the parties could not eventually agree on the conditions of liberation.

The main reason for the unexpected failure was the refusal of the American side at the last minute to include all nine British on the repatriation list, the newspaper notes.

The American military insists that the four most dangerous, in their opinion, suspected of terrorist activities of British subjects were betrayed by the military tribunal in the United States. London categorically opposed this for several months of difficult negotiations, since the UK is prohibited by the death penalty that can be applied to four British in the United States.

In the changed conditions, the British side now intends to achieve, if not returning to their homeland of its subjects, then at least "organizing an honest court in America over them," the publication notes.

Earlier it was reported that at least seven of nine British prisoners from the American base of Guantanamo can be released without holding an American military tribunal over them.