Britain Bashes Bermuda for Taking Gitmo Inmates

Britain has berated its oldest remaining colony for taking in former Guantanamo detainees without asking London's permission first, the BBC reports. American officials say they dealt directly with Bermuda on the issue, through its British-appointed governor, as they arranged to release four Chinese Muslim Uighurs to Bermuda.

"The Bermuda government consider this to be a matter regarding their day-to-day responsibility for immigration," said a snippy statement from Britain's Foreign Office. "We have underlined to the Bermuda government that it should have consulted the UK on whether this falls within their competence or is a foreign affairs or security issue for which the Bermuda government do not have delegated responsibility." (More Bermuda stories.)