Sweden Will Extradite suspected Iraqi Terrorist...Someday

[Stockholm]

The Swedish government announced on Monday that it would extradite to Iraq a man suspected of terrorist activities linked to Islamic extremism, but said he would remain in Sweden until the risk of him being tortured in the war-torn country had subsided.

Swedish law prohibits the extradition or deportation of anyone who risks torture or the death penalty.

The man was arrested with three others in Sweden last April, suspected of ‘terrorist crimes, alternatively the planning of terrorism crimes’.

Swedish security police had apparently bugged the man’s telephone and searched his house, discovering that he had strong ties to the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, which has claimed to be behind a number of deadly attacks in Iraq.

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Swedish Minister of Justice, Tomas Bodström

[ogradda]

1. good.

glad someone still uses a moral code.

[Stockholm]

3. Sheesh only window dressing!

The government has received serious flack concerning the two Egyptian men that was put through a "rendition", whereby Swedish Police took the two men to a Stockholm city airport where American "agents" met up, handcuffed the men, stripped them of their clothing, inserted suppository sedatives, put diapers on them, dressed them in overalls, covered their heads and flew them on a chartered plane to Egypt where they were subsequently tortured.

In Parliamentary hearings it has established that fmr. Foreign Minister Anna Lindh (assassinated) approved the procedure which is unlawful according to Swedish laws.

It will take more than this token decision Mr. Bodström, much more...

[Paleocon]

2. We'd better invade them soon...

Let's see...

Iran...

Syria....

North Korea.....

Sweden......

Looks like we're gonna be busy for a while...

But don't worry, we'll get to them when we get to them...

You go to war with the army you have, not the one you want after all...