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2004-09-09 Europe

Ex-Guantanamo Prisoner Faces Discrimination in Sweden

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Posted by tipper 2004-09-09 04:10|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Since his return the 25-year-old has faced the wrath of many Swedes. Although he was born in Sweden and carries the country's passport, Mehdi is not considered a real Swede in some quarters because he has an Algerian father and a Finnish mother."

This is happening in everyone-is-equal Sweden? Maybe the Swedes are starting to understand that it's become a matter of survival, and that some are more equal than others.

Posted by Bryan 2004-09-09 5:53:20 AM|| 2004-09-09 5:53:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Gosta Hulten argued "that the U.S., by releasing Mehdi, had indirectly agreed that he was innocent." Not so fast Gosta! We let him go because there was not enough evidence to convict him, not the same as innocent.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-09-09 10:50:50 AM|| 2004-09-09 10:50:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 wah, wah, So typical. He goes off to kill infidels but manages to find outrage when the infidels he signed up to kill don't want him around.

Posted by B 2004-09-09 10:57:56 AM|| 2004-09-09 10:57:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The local press, convinced that Mehdi was not a victim but a radical young Muslim tried to poke holes in his Afghan story. While it could not present any incriminating evidence of Mehdi's activities in Afghanistan, it managed to reveal that he was detained briefly and released in Portugal on criminal charges which were subsequently dropped. It also reported that he had studied at Islamic schools in England and Pakistan. As a result many Swedes, including some political parties, clamored for the government to explain why it spent 500,000 Swedish kronor -- about $50,000 dollars -- to transport the former detainee home.

Sweden paid $50,000 to fly this little snot-gobbler back home? Someone's asleep at the wheel. They should have shipped him back to his real homeland in Afghanistan or Pakistan. If he loves those countries so much, maybe that's where he should stay.

Posted by Zenster 2004-09-09 10:32:07 PM|| 2004-09-09 10:32:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Let me give him one of my sympathy cards.....lesse ....where did I put it?

Damn! Plumb out. Sorry.....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-09 10:45:22 PM|| 2004-09-09 10:45:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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