May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Mehdi_ghezali":
National: 27 Apr 11
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has slammed a Swedish tabloid as 'corrupt and politicized' the day after it published a scoop on Swedish Guantanamo detainee Mehdi Ghezali.
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National: 26 Apr 11
Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali was held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, not because he had committed a crime, but to provide information about terrorist recruiting methods, according to documents made public by WikiLeaks.
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National: 1 Jan 11
A foiled terrorist plot involving three Swedes who planned an attack on a Danish newspaper was destined to fail, a Swedish terrorism expert said on Saturday.
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National: 30 Dec 10
Two of the Swedish citizens arrested following a foiled terror plot against a Danish newspaper have previously been arrested in Pakistan.
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National: 30 Dec 10
Three men from Sweden were remanded in custody by a Danish court on Thursday after police foiled their plot against a newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
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National: 23 Nov 09
Lawyers representing a former Swedish terror suspect who spent time in the United States’ Guantánamo Bay prison, claim their client was not traveling to any trouble spots when he was arrested in Pakistan in August.
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National: 11 Oct 09
The four Swedes deported from Pakistan arrived at Stockholm Arlanda airport late on Saturday night. They were met by plain clothes police and appeared tired from their ordeal.
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National: 10 Oct 09
The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed that four Swedish citizens, arrested in Pakistan in August as terrorist suspects, have been released and put on a flight to Stockholm.
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National: 27 Sep 09
The Swedish embassy in Islamabad has denied that 19-year-old Safia Benaouda and her two-year-old son have been released by the Pakistani authorities, as reports continue to circulate indicating their imminent return to Sweden.
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National: 25 Sep 09
Safia Benaouda, the 19-year-old Swedish woman arrested in Pakistan earlier in September in the company of former Guantanamo inmate Mehdi Ghezali, is reported to have been released, according to local media.
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National: 23 Sep 09
Official from Sweden's embassy in Islamabad have met with four Swedish terror suspects currently detained in a Pakistani prison, the foreign ministry announced on Wednesday.
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National: 17 Sep 09
The head of the Muslim Council of Sweden, Helena Benaouda, expressed relief on Thursday that her daughter, arrested three weeks ago along with her child and two other Swedes, is not considered a terror suspect by Pakistani authorities.
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National: 16 Sep 09
Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Wednesday confirmed that four Swedish citizens are sitting in prison in the capital Islamabad, three weeks after their arrest in the north of the country.
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National: 14 Sep 09
Sweden's foreign ministry confirmed on Monday that four Swedish citizens - three adults and a child - are being held in Pakistan, where authorities are investigating whether the group has ties to Al-Qaeda.
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National: 13 Sep 09
Sweden's foreign ministry confirmed on Saturday that three Swedes have been arrested in Pakistan.
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National: 11 Sep 09
One of the three Swedish nationals arrested nearly two weeks ago in Pakistan is Mehdi Ghezali, a former terror suspect who was released from the United States’ Guantánamo Bay prison in 2004.
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National: 14 Aug 07
A Swedish former Guantánamo Bay prisoner has given up on attempts to sue the United States government for damages. Mehdi Ghezali was imprisoned in the American military base on Cuba for more than two years.
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National: 6 Aug 07
Sweden's security service, Säpo, has warned that the country risks becoming a base for recruitment of terrorists.
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National: 27 Sep 05
"No guarantees" said the Swedish government when Mehdi Ghezali was released from the Guantanamo base on Cuba. But according to a TV programme, Sweden agreed to keep Ghezali under observation and to report back to the United States.
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National: 17 Mar 05
Mehdi Ghezali, who spent over two years in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp, is set to sue US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld "for millions". Coincidentally, a new book is out, detailing his story from arrest in Pakistan to his special Säpo home-coming in Örebro.
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National: 23 Jul 04
Mehdi Ghezali speaks out against his American captors and the Swedish government, defends his actions in 2001 - and wants some cash.
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National: 9 Jul 04
Mehdi Ghezali is released from Guantanamo Bay after two and a half years' imprisonment.
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