Eight men freed from Guantanamo prison have decided to sue the UK intelligence for damages they have incurred while they were in jail.

The British newspaper the Daily Mail Saturday cited lawyers and one of the former detainees as saying so.

The Daily Mail said two separate writs had been issued on behalf of the eight--five UK nationals and three with residency rights--claiming the complicity of the domestic and overseas security services with the Americans.

The first writ has been issued at London's High Court by lawyers acting on behalf of Libyan national Omar Deghayes, Jordanian Jamil el-Banna and an Iraqi Bisher al-Rawi. Deghayes and el-Banna were released from the US-run facility in Cuba last December.

Al Rawi was set free earlier this year. Spain dropped an attempt to extradite them to face terrorism charges in March.

The second writ is on behalf of British nationals Moazzam Begg, from Birmingham, west central England; a trio of friends from nearby Tipton, Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Ruhal Ahmed; and Londoner Richard Belmar.

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