February 14, 2012
Published: 21 Sep 09 08:21 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22194/20090921/
An Iraqi man who claimed to have worked as a bodyguard for Saddam Hussein is to be deported from Sweden despite findings by the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) that his life is at risk if he returns to Iraq.
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Oussama Kassir
Mohamed Moumou
Fuad Mohamed Qalaf
Ali Kamal Berzengi
Mehdi Ghezali
c-so we conclude here: palestinians were there before, israelis as entity lived in palestine for 400 years. palestinians lived before the jewish arrival to palestine, co-existed with the jewish during their role and then stayed in palestine when the jewish were expelled out of palestine. d-apart from the bible, let us look at the historical places in PALESTINE. all of the old buildings are arabic buildings. jews have not even a single historical place there. when people live in a place for long time, they create civilizations. we see the roman historical places everywhere. we see the arab historical buildings in spain everywhere as witness for their existence there. what jews have in palestine???
e-another issue: even those jews who left from palestine, how can we connect them to palestine? they left thousands years. many of them were converted to other religions. some people from other religion converted to Judaism. so it is very stupid to take about Judaism as religion because then this will mean that if anyone of you guys here converts to Judaism then he will have a right on palestine!!!
f- those who gives jews a right on palestine, don't you think about palestinains? u dont care about them! u want to expel them and make them live in refugee camps in order to let the jews come ftom all over the world. is this acceptable from any ethical perspectives?
for the guy who does not like israel's neighbor, namly, hamas and hizbulla: okey first, israel is an illegal country. i guess u mean the occupied palestine's neighbor.
ok. what is the problem with hizbullah? why r u concealing facts from people? u should mention that israel is occupying part of lebanon that 's why hizbulla is resisting the israeli occupation. mention this please. so it is israel is the aggressor, not hizbulla.
mention that israel is occupying palestine, that is why hamas is resisting the israeli occupation, so itis israel is the aggressor , not hamas.
Jeeez. Stick to the subject. And say what you have to say in seven lines or less. Your ranting gibberish is overbearing. Seeems like you should be deorted too.
they bring the suffering to their people. All the people which were in the power during saddam time are guilty .
Its right descision .. Go ahead Säpo
an Iraqi
I don't remember this time but, I read a news on thelocal.se some time ago that a pakistani was sent to pakistan from sweden. After some days he was killed in pakistan. The same thing will happen with this gaurd I belived. So, I think Swedish government may not send 'Saddam's body guard' back to Iraq.
Thank you very much,
JUNAID IQBAL
HÖGSKOLAN DALARNA
Then again, I've run into Iraqis that say they aren't Iraqis, but rather Kurds or people that are so ashamed of Iraq/is they don't want to be associated with it anymore and want to start anew.
This story is hardly news to anyone that is living in sweden.
I also wonder why he was allowed to come to Sweden in the first place!
Säpo cannot tell the difference between a frog and a spider.Whats more concerning is why does sweden accept so many scumbags.
Oussama Kassir
Mohamed Moumou
Fuad Mohamed Qalaf
Ali Kamal Berzengi
THANKS FOR THE ADVICE, THIS GIVES ME CLUES ABOUT WHAT TO DO NEXT TIME I APPLY FOR A TOURIST VISA, SO I CAN SEE THE LAND OF MY ANCESTORS. NO I KNOW ILL GET IT FOR SURE. THANK YOU,
Before the war crimes and overthrow and mob lynching of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the rape and murder of Iraqis defending their own country,women could walk safely in Baghdad without need of a chador.Christians speaking the
language of Jesus long sice lost in Palestine and Israel could go to their churches in safety and Tariq Aziz a Christian held and torturured by W Bush and the Israelis who commited the war crimes held high political office in a Moslem majority country.Not any more and those who call themselves Christians in Europe the USA or elsewhere should be ashamed.The Israelis who lie about being semites will probanly also lie about the 1,000,000 Iraqi deaths whose blood is on their hands.As an American I am ashamed for my country.Carl Bildt
should realise that Swedish soldiers are in Afghanistan under false circumstances and more war crimes,rape and murder are being commited everyday.Osama bin Laden is not wanted by FBI for 9/11 and the bin Laden familyy are business partners of Bush-Cheney and Carlyle,etc..and presumably have made another fortune fromthis
I second that motion. : )