The British government has barred thousands of former residents of the Indian Ocean island Diego Garcia from returning home 30 years after they were forced from their homeland to make way for a US air and naval base. The order which bars the return of residents to Diego Garcia and 64 other islands overturns a high court order four years allowing for their right of return. The British government says the US, which leases the land for the base, needs the island more now since Sept. 11. The island has been used to launch attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan.