THE US has agreed to suspend the threat of secret military hearings against two British terror suspects, pending talks between legal authorities on both sides of the Atlantic, a Downing Street spokesman said yesterday.

British Taliban suspect Feroz Abbasi has lost a High Court battle over the conditions of his detention by the US at Camp X-Ray.

The British government was today facing legal action for allegedly failing to press the US to respect the human rights of the Camp X-Ray prisoners.