BRITISH Jihadis could be locked up in Guantanamo Bay because the UK is failing to deal with its terrorists, fed-up US officials have said.

America's plans to crackdown on homegrown British extremists were revealed after it emerged Islamist fighters returning to UK soil are being secretly rehabilitated rather than prosecuted.

Just one in ten jihadists who come back to Britain after battling for terrorists in the Middle East have been prosecuted, according to reports.

Unsatisfied with our government's 'soft' approach the US is understood to be readying Guantanamo Bay, its high security terror detention camp, for British inmates.

The Trump administration is reportedly frustrated with how Britain and other western European countries are refusing to take back their foreign fighters for prosecution in their own courts.

US officials are said to be working on prosecuting two alleged members of the "Beatles" terror cell - Londoners El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey - in America.

'TIME IS RUNNING OUT'
The pair were captured by Kurdish forces in Syria after allegedly torturing and killing hostages - including American, British and Japanese journalists - while in operating in the cell.

The US is considering sending the men to Gauntanamo, fearing that British inaction could see them stranded in Syria where they risk evading justice or worse, returning to the battlefield.

A sourse told the Telegraph: "These guys have American blood on their hands."

Another added that "time is running out" to secure US prosecutions of the terrorists.

BEGUM BEGS TO COME HOME
Yesterday the Home Office minister in charge of security rejected ISIS bride Shamima Begum's plea to be rescued, stating "actions have consequences".

The discovery of the 19-year-old fanatic reignited the diplomatic row over how to handle returning jihadis.

It has been suggested that Begum could be barred from coming home and instead be prosecuted in Turkey or Iraq.

Ben Wallace, the UK's security minister, said: “I’m not putting at risk British people’s lives to go and look for terrorists or former terrorists in a failed state.

“The message this Government has given for many years is that actions have consequences.”

According to the newspaper, almost all jihadi brides that have been allowed to return are put on government rehabilitation courses instead of being imprisoned.

The Home Office is said to have approved more than 50 "interventionists" who run radicalisation programmes.

The Sun Online has contacted the Home Office for comment.