BBC News
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VIDEO: Lesbos struggles as 4,000 arrive daily September 22, 2015
The Greek island of Lesbos is still struggling to keep up with the steady flow of migrants and refugees.
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VIDEO: How much does making a drug cost? September 22, 2015
As Turing Pharmaceuticals raises the price of an Aids treatment, Daraprim, BBC News looks at how the pharmaceutical industry tries to balance the pursuit of profit with a patient's need to access medication.
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VIDEO: Refugee crisis: Food and phone charging September 22, 2015
The BBC's Mark Lowen reports from a sports stadium on the Turkey-Greece border where agencies are providing shelter and food to refugees trying to reach Europe.
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VIDEO: On the ground at refugee hotspots September 22, 2015
EU ministers have approved a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 refugees and migrants across the EU using compulsory quotas.
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VIDEO: Hungary prints ads to warn migrants September 22, 2015
Hungary has printed adverts in Lebanese and Jordanian newspapers warning Syrian refugees in those countries against making the journey to Europe.
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VIDEO: The women 'shouting' their abortions September 22, 2015
The women sharing their abortion stories by 'shouting' about it on Twitter
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VIDEO: 'Massive influx' at Croatia border September 22, 2015
Border authorities are struggling to cope with the massive influx of migrants arriving in Europe, reports Ben Brown from the Opatovac camp on the Serbia-Croatia border.
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VIDEO: Burkina Faso: 'We don't want him in power' September 22, 2015
People in Burkina Faso tell the BBC they do not support the leader of the country's coup and do not want him in power.
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VIDEO: Kosovan PM pelted with eggs September 22, 2015
The Kosovan prime minister is forced to abandon an address to the country's parliament after opposition ministers throw eggs at him.
– RICHARD BELMAR
* Richard Belmar was born in 1980 in London and is a UK citizen. His father is a Catholic and he attended a Catholic school in north London. Richard Belmar converted to Islam in his teens,following his elder brother.
According to his family Richard Belmar was a troublesome teenager, but after conversion to Islam, in early 1999, Richard Belmar became very polite and respectful. He worked in the Royal Mail service and attended the Regent’s Park Mosque, close to his home in Maida Vale, London. Regent’s Park Mosque practices moderate Islam and there were no radicals in the Mosque community.
Richard Belmar traveled to Pakistan in 07/2001, few weeks before The 9/11, allegedly to study at a religious school, through the United Arab Emirates – UAE, and ended in Kandahar, Afghanistan. In Kandahar and Kabul Richard Belmar went through basic training of using weapons in Al Qaeda’s training camps.
Richard Belmar was arrested in Pakistan by Pakistani authority, with 17 other occupants, in a safe house in Karachi affiliated to Al Qaeda, on 02/07/2002. After initial investigation, iIncluding by British MI5 security service agents, he was handed over to CIA in operation “Extraordinary Rendition”. He was detained for more then six months in the secret detention center in Bagram Air Base, North of Kabul, before transferred to Guantanamo.
Richard Belmar was in the second group of UK citizens detained in Guantanamo and sent back to UK on 01/25/2005 along with Moazzam Begg, Feroz Abbasi and Martin Mubanga. The four were detained for questioning for few days and released afterwards without charges.
Richard Belmar was among about dozen of former Gitmo detainees that were compensated by the British authorities following a judicial settlement, on 11/15/2010 might (see – Gitmo Copensations ).
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