LONDON - In a significant policy shift for the British government, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has asked the United States to release five British residents imprisoned at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The request came in a letter yesterday to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

According to a statement from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office yesterday, "The Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have decided to request the release from Guantanamo Bay and return to the U.K. of the five men who, whilst not [United Kingdom] nationals, were legally resident here prior to their detention."..............

Britain asks U.S. to free 5 from Cuba -- baltimoresun.com

If these people are not UK nationals then why are they not being sent back to their country of origin? Why are we bringing back people from guantanamo who were illegall combatants wanting to kill our boys?