The US military has dropped all charges against UK resident Binyam Mohamed his proposed "trial" by Military Commission at Guantánamo.

Last night, the Convening Authority, Susan Crawford, dismissed all charges without prejudice.

“Far from being a victory for Mr. Mohamed in his long-running struggle for justice, this is more of the same farce that is Guantánamo,” said Clive Stafford Smith of Reprieve, representing Mohamed.

“The military has informed us that they plan to charge him again within a month, after the [US Presidential] election.”

Reprieve state that the charges have only been dropped for the moment because the US military prosecutor who resigned last month, Lt. Colonel Darrel Vandeveld , raised pervasive complaints about the military suppressing evidence favourable to Mohamed.

The Pentagon intends to re-file charges against Mr. Mohamed again within 30 days, and argue that intervention by new military prosecutors has resolved the flaws identified by Vandeveld.

“The Bush Administration will not even admit in public that they rendered Mr. Mohamed to face torture in Morocco, let alone allow him a fair trial,” said Stafford Smith. “Meanwhile he sits in solitary confinement in Guantánamo, in total despair, contemplating whether he should just commit suicide.” 

Mohamed was illegally detained and transferred via Prestwick airport, who hosted the CIA flights en route to Morocco where he was tortured for 18 months

Prestwick claimed in 2007 that they had no locus to interfere with the passage of such "rendition" flights.