3 British residents return to U.K. after release from Guantanamo

Three longtime British residents held in the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay returned to Britain on Wednesday and two were arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, police said.

Jamil el-Banna, 45, of Jordan, Libyan-born Omar Deghayes, 38, and Abdennour Sameur, 34, of Algeria, landed at Luton airport, north of London, at about 1900 GMT, said Clive Stafford Smith, a lawyer for the British legal charity Reprieve, which has assisted the men.

Police said officers accompanying the three arrested Deghayes and Sameur under the Terrorism Act shortly before their chartered aircraft landed. They were arrested on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism …