US 'kept Guantanamo deal from UK'

[thundley4]

A senior US official has told the BBC Washington decided not to tell London beforehand about a deal to resettle four Guantanamo detainees in Bermuda.
A diplomatic row blew up over Bermuda's decision to accept the four Chinese Muslim Uighurs on a US request.
Bermuda is a British overseas territory but the US official said Washington had acted secretly to ensure success.
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Now a senior US official has told the BBC it was a deliberate decision not to consult London on the resettlement, after other countries came under pressure from China not to accept the Uighurs.
In a highly unusual move, a senior US official said Washington opted to keep details of the deal from London until the last minute to enable Britain to deny all knowledge of the deal and thus avoid China's anger, says the BBC's Washington correspondent Kim Ghattas.
The official said they expected London to be upset but added he felt the deal was made on solid ground, in direct talks with the Bermuda government, who accepted the men as part of guest worker programme.

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Why does 0Bama hate England so much and continually try to piss them off?  Didn't his dad work as an "agent provocateur" for England?

[docstew]

In a highly unusual move, a senior US official said Washington opted to keep details of the deal from London until the last minute to enable Britain to deny all knowledge of the deal and thus avoid China's anger, says the BBC's Washington correspondent Kim Ghattas.

"We didn't tell them what we were doing so that we could protect them"  Yeah, right.  You didn't want to give them the opportunity to say "No, we don't want your bloody terrorists on our soil".

When you start lying to and withholding information from your allies, how long will an alliance last before irreperable harm is done?

[Chris_]

When you start lying to and withholding information from your allies, how long will an alliance last before irreperable harm is done?

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