A lawyer will visit a Birmingham man being held at Guantanamo Bay today and tomorrow for the first time since his imprisonment more than two years ago. Strict orders have been put in place by the US Government about what the lawyer can say on the condition and state of mind of Moazzam Begg and another British detainee following the visit, according to UK-based lawyer Louise Christian. American-based lawyer Gita Gutierrez is due to visit 36-year-old Begg and Feroz Abbasi, aged 23, of London. She will not be allowed to report any details of the visit to their families. Visits which had been arranged for Richard Belmar, aged 23, and Martin Mubanga, aged 29, both from London, have been postponed. Begg, from Sparkhill, moved to Kabul to start a school for basic education and provide water pumps. He was seized by the CIA in February 2002 after moving from Afghanistan, following allied attacks in October 2001, to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. The CIA and Pakistani police officers took him back to Kabul, where he was held in a windowless cellar at Bagram air-base for nearly a year until his transfer to Guantanamo Bay. On July 4 last year Begg was told he would face a military tribunal in connection with his alleged involvement with al Qaida. Intelligence agencies claimed his name appeared on a photocopy of a money transfer found in an al Qaida training camp. At the end of November 2003 it was claimed that Begg had confessed under duress to taking part in an al Qaida plot to launch an anthrax attack on the Houses of Parliament. He had allegedly confessed to planning to fly an unmanned plane from Suffolk to London, dropping the bacteria over Westminster. The confession was report-edly in exchange for being returned to the UK to serve time in a high security prison. Begg and Abbasi had been due to face a military trial but these were suspended while talks continued about their detention. Mr Begg's father Azmat has just returned from America, where he was campaigning for his son's release. He said: "I won't be able to ask anything about the visit by the lawyer or pass on any kind of message to my son. "For almost three years he has not been able to speak to anyone and I'm worried about the effect it is having on him." Mr Begg was joined by his son's London lawyer, Gareth Peirce, at the Centre For Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York City. Five more Britons - including Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Ruhal Ahmed from Tipton - were handed over to British custody in March, and were quickly freed without charge. The lawyers will also speak to Jamil El-Banna, a Jordanian Palestinian refugee, and Bisher Al-Rawi, an Iraqi refugee. Both men were living in Britain before being seized in Gambia. While the arrival of lawyers at Guantanamo Bay is a breakthrough for rights campaigners, the CCR said it was not a sign of generosity by the US. | 
