Guantanamo Britons fate to be decided, says Blair

Two years to the day after the United States opened its controversial Guantanamo Bay jail in Cuba, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the fate of nine Britons held there would be resolved in weeks.

Faced with growing criticism that the Britons are being denied basic rights as they are kept at the US military base without charge or trial, Blair said: "I think it will be resolved one way or another in the next few weeks.

"But I can't say exactly at this juncture how the issue will be settled," he told BBC television.