| A British court says the United States has agreed to hand over documents critical to the defence of a Guantanamo Bay detainee -- but only if he goes on trial. Lord Justice John Thomas wrote that US officials have promised to provide 44 documents sought by Binyan Muhammad's lawyers. Muhammad says he was tortured while in US custody. His attorneys sought the documents from the British government. But Foreign Secretary David Miliband fought disclosure on national security grounds. On Friday, the court gave him a week to disclose the documents. Muhammad, who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, is accused of conspiring with Al Qaeda leaders. Neither the US nor Britain has disclosed information about his time in custody until he arrived at Guantanamo Bay in 2004. |