Extremists shouldn’t be locked away in another Guantanamo – that’s where terrorists are made

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Jamal al-Harith was held held in extrajudicial detention as a suspected enemy combatant in Guantanamo Bay (Getty)

The case of Jamal al-Harith is being cited as proof of the need for the US prison in Guantanamo Bay in order to protect society from terrorists.

This ignores the fact that Jamal al-Harith became a suicide bomber for Isis after spending two years there without charge.

Is it a wonder that some, indefinitely imprisoned without charge by those who continually boast about their social superiority and belief in human rights, might emerge from prison hating their jailers?

Guantanamo prison is not a place where terrorists are interned – it is a place of injustice where terrorists are created.

Sasha Simic

London

Another place entirely

“About 10,000 doctors who work in the NHS qualified in Europe,” according to your correspondent Paul Gallagher, out of which “four in 10 European doctors are considering leaving Britain”.

It is little wonder that we are leaving the EU. Not specifically because of these observations about doctors but because of the language that even a balanced newspaper such as yourself uses.

It is commonplace to use the term Europe in an exclusive sense, in that the UK is not part of Europe. In our everyday language we convey the idea that we are not part of Europe. Europe is something else. Do Italians or the French, for instance, refer to Europe in this same way by excluding themselves?

For many years our whole discussion about the EU has had the tenor that we are not part of it. It is therefore no surprise that we now want to formalise this separation.

Keith Tizzard

Devon

No way, USA

US immigration insists on taking our phones and possibly our social network passwords before letting us into their country. I have a simple solution. Unless your journey is absolutely necessary, don't go.

Let's boycott the country.

Alan Pack

Kent

Fantasy island

Politicians keep saying they cannot go against the will of the people. Figures show that 37 per cent of said people voted to leave the EU but 63 per cent did not.

If this was a union vote for a strike it would need over 50 per cent of the whole membership before it could be sanctioned.

I would think that the majority of Brexit voters did not vote to make Britain poorer and crash the pound. We must have another vote when all the problems are known and not fantasy island comments from people like Boris Johnson and cronies.

Peter Mosforth

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Liberal Dems are consistent in backing Lords reform

JH Moffat, (Letters, 23 February), wails about the Liberal Democrats having a tiny party in the House of Commons, yet has 95 peers in the House of Lords, calling it “undemocratic”. Where has he/she been the last several hundred years while unelected peers of all party affiliations have had a central role in our legislative branch of government?

Sure, reform of the Lords is talked about periodically, yet nothing changes. But guess which is the only political party committed to reform of the Lords and always has been? Yes, you guessed it, the Liberal Democrats.

John Daintith

Somerset

It’s how you phrase it

On 23 February, following the latest quarterly release of immigration figures from the Office for National Statistics, The Guardian reported that net migration to Britain fell by 49,000 to 273,000 in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote, while The Telegraph headline said that figures show for first time that more EU migrants came to UK than from all other nations combined after the Brexit vote. They're probably both correct, but it's an interesting contrast in emphasis.

Patrick Cosgrove

Shropshire