May 25, 2012
Published: 14 May 09 06:12 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
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Sweden’s foreign ministry is still waiting for details about the charges against a 40-year-old Swedish citizen who has been held by American authorities in Iraq for nearly one year.
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Also Sweden needs to ask, what the hell is an asylum seeker from Iraq, doing back there?
If there had been genuine danger, they still not be able to go back. This was obviously a false asylum claim, whcih raises my suspicions as to what he is doing in Iraq again.
The guy left Iraq in 2000, probably because his life was in "danger". Then he returns there to starts a "construction" business.
What a joke...
The guy is a terrorist and as such he should be locked in a cage forever. Luckily US and Israel have the guts to clean the world from these scumbags.
BTW who will be the first to defend this Muslim martyr?
Tony.
in future it will make a big problem for swedish passport holders. sweden made a big mistake by allowing these asylem and refugees(muslims) and citizenship by fake marriages. there are also vietnam and latin america immigrants they proved that they are good immigrants . stop immigration from muslim countries and allow immigrants from china india and other non muslim countries .
sweden should wake up before situation going out of hands.
This is already happening to British people. The NuLabor has given British passport to any rubbish that applied, and thousands did.
Today the good indigenous British are paying the price for this mistake.
PS. I'd also be very careful with immigration from India and China.
Tony
other countries who are allowing swedish passport holders without visa must observe this and take precausions.
*not I*
I have heard the stories of people who seek asylum claiming they cannot go home because they will be killed if they return. Once they are granted Swedish citizenship they then travel back to the very countries where they claimed they would be killed. And the Swedish government does NOTHING with regards to their lies that got them citizenship!
This does not sound like one of those cases at all. It would be nice to find out what he was accused of.
Maybe the competition did not like his business invading their territory and so they removed the competition by claiming he was a terrorist 8-O
What's wrong with their choice to believe as they do? Please listen very carefully. Different is not necessarily bad, different is simply different. The dark ages are long over, and I hope your kind of thinking gone with it. You sound like an isolationist, if so you're welcome to your views, yet if you have something to express it's best you do so reasonably and contructively. Don't antagonize others for their tolerance and open mindedness.
Hmmm... are you concerned that people coming to Western countries might not be able to accept Western principles? That's for each Western Country to decide for itself. You seem to be berating people in other countries for not doing as you want...well... life is full of disappointments, so get used to it. There is no harm in saying " hey I think that maybe ill advised, and offering a suggestion", yet you seem to be trying to cram your beliefs down other peoples throats. Normally I would simple ignor dribble such as yours, yet this time I simply wanted to say...hey, chill out, Euopeans will work things out for themselves.