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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Guantanamo detainee back in Britain AFP - 1 hour 31 minutes ago LONDON (AFP) - - Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born former British resident, returned to Britain after being released from Guantanamo Bay on Monday, alleging he had been "tortured in medieval ways". ADVERTISEMENT The transfer from Guantanamo is the first under new US President Barack Obama, who ordered the closure of the notorious "war on terror" detention camp on Cuba two days after taking office on January 20. Television pictures showed a small plane landing at RAF Northolt airbase in northwest London and a man wearing a white top, black trousers and white trainers being escorted across the runway by officials in suits. The 30-year-old said in a statement through his lawyers that he was "not asking for vengeance -- only that the truth should be made known" as he alleged that British officials had colluded with his "abusers". Mohamed has been in custody since 2002 but could face further detention in Britain while his immigration and security status is established, with deportation to Ethiopia possible. He will be met by a doctor and his lawyers, together with family and friends, "who will take him to a quiet place to recover from his ordeal," his lawyers Reprieve said. Mohamed was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 before being taken to Morocco and Afghanistan, and then on to Guantanamo Bay, where he spent more than four years. He was suspected of attending an Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan and of plotting to build a radioactive "dirty bomb", but was never charged. Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was "pleased" with Mohamed's return, which followed "intensive negotiations" with Washington. He said Mohamed was accompanied by Foreign Office officials, Metropolitan Police officers and a doctor who visited him in Guantanamo Bay on February 14 and said there was no medical reason preventing his return, despite his recent 13-day hunger strike. In requesting the return of former British residents, "we have paid full consideration to the need to maintain national security and the government's overriding responsibilities in this regard," he said. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said Sunday that Mohamed will be granted temporary admission into the country and his immigration status would then be considered in detail by officials. The Foreign Office has stressed that his return did not guarantee he would be allowed to remain in Britain. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's official spokesman said earlier that "public safety is absolutely our top priority. "The home secretary will take all the appropriate measures to maintain the national and international security," he told reporters. "We do have a number of options at our disposal to protect the public from terrorism-related activity but we are not in a position to comment on individual cases." In his statement, Mohamed said he was "neither physically nor mentally capable" of facing the media on his return. "I have been through an experience that I never thought to encounter in my darkest nightmares," he said. "Before this ordeal, 'torture' was an abstract word to me. I could never have imagined that I would be its victim. "It is still difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways -- all orchestrated by the United States government... "And I have to say, more in sadness than in anger, that many have been complicit in my own horrors over the past seven years." He alleged that British officials had questioned him in Pakistan and that evidence was then used by "the people who were torturing me". "The very worst moment came when I realised... the very people who I had hoped would come to my rescue, I later realised, had allied themselves with my abusers," he said. "I am not asking for vengeance; only that the truth should be made known, so that nobody in the future should have to endure what I have endured." Mohamed's sister Zuhra, who travelled to London to greet her brother, said: "I am so glad and so happy, more than words can express. I am so thankful for everything that was done for Binyam to make this day come true." Reprieve director Clive Stafford Smith said he expected the government immediately to grant Mohamed his freedom. 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