Eight men freed from Guantanamo Bay are suing the British Secret Services for millions, the Daily Mail can reveal today.

They have issued writs against MI5 and MI6 in a claim for damages that would fall on the taxpayer.

One of the men said they will argue that Britain was complicit in their illegal abduction, treatment and interrogation.

He said the eight - five Britons and three foreign nationals living here - were put on CIA "torture flights" to the prison camp in U.S.-occupied Cuba.

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Two separate writs name "The Security Services", "The Secret Intelligence Agency" and "The Attorney General" as the defendants.

Two groups of former Guantanamo detainees are identified as claimants.

The first writ was issued at the High Court in London by lawyers acting for Libyan Omar Deghayes, Jordanian Jamil el-Banna - both freed from Guantanamo last December - and Iraqi Bisher al Rawi, who was released earlier last year.

The second writ names five Britons as claimants: Moazzam Begg, Richard Belmar and the so-called Tipton Three, Rhuhell Ahmed, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, who were freed in previous years.

The three men from Tipton in the West Midlands launched a lawsuit in the U.S. courts two years ago suing their captors for allegedly violating their human and religious rights at Guantanamo.

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