We shall see whether or not the UK's request will fall on deaf ears or not - all we can do is ask. If the US authorities refuse then there is little or nothing the UK Government could do about it. The US Government could of course see this as a convenient and very cheap solution for getting rid of one of their embarassments.

With us having left Iraq, and Yunus Rahmatullah never having been held by the British in custody it would appear that the only place we could return him to would be to the back seat of a taxi in down-town Baghdad.

Of course we could do a "Binyamin" on him and return him to the UK by executive jet to be lashed up right royally and paid off - probably by far and away the cheapest and easiest option.

Oh by the bye Richard the LET is entirely a Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Agency construct - they run it - they say who is and who is not in it. It was formed in 1990 to foment trouble in Kashmir and there is absolutely no indication according to it's official website that it is solely a "Sunni" Terrorist organisation.