Posted on 09/25/2007 12:28:10 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- A Swedish citizen wanted in the U.S. on suspicion of plotting to set up a terrorist camp there was extradited Tuesday from the Czech Republic, officials said.
Czech Justice minister Jiri Pospisil ruled on Sept 18 there was no reason to refuse a U.S. extradition request for Oussama Kassir, spokeswoman Zuzana Kuncova said.
Kassir left the country by plane on Tuesday bound for the United States, said Kuncova.
Kassir was arrested on Dec. 11, 2005, at Prague's Ruzyne international airport while flying from Stockholm, Sweden, to Beirut, Lebanon.
He has been held in a Czech prison ever since. The United States requested his extradition in February 2006.
In April this year, the municipal court in Prague ruled he could be extradited to the U.S. but Kassir appealed the verdict. The appeal was rejected July.
Kassir has been charged in the United States with taking part in a plot to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon.
Kassir allegedly wanted to teach military-style methods to Muslims seeking to travel to Afghanistan to fight or receive further training there. A U.S. court issued an international warrant for his arrest.
Kassir was born in Lebanon and moved to Sweden in 1984. He became a citizen five years later.
He spent several months in prison in 1998 for assaulting a police officer and drug possession.
A Swedish court jailed Kassir for 10 months two years ago for illegal weapons possession.
Yes, and guess how he got in here the first time to scout around Oregon and establish a terror training camp? Visa waiver program. He is a “Swede.” Sweden is part of the U.S. visa waiver program. Zacaraias Moussaoui, the indicted “20th terrorist” entered the United States on a French passport. Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, was travelling to the United States on a British passport. Neither required a visa under the waiver program. Ahmad Ajaj, a participant in the first terrorist plot to blow up the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 was fortunately found to be carrying explosives and arrested upon his entry. He, too, was travelling on a Swedish passport.
If he’s Swedish, I’m guessing he’s Lutheran.
Uh huh.
Somehow I doubt that he is tall, blond and likes lutefisk..............
Yeah, sounds real "Swedish" to me.
You don't get more Swedish than that ;-) Any guesses on his religion?
“Yeah, sounds real “Swedish” to me.”
Don’t make fun of it. Do you know that in many European countries, the name most often given to newborns is Mohammed? This tells you which ethnic group produces the most offsprings.
He is Neoswede.....he is the future
The official religion of the Swedish Government, Muslim.
You don't get more Swedish than that ;-) Any guesses on his religion?
It's hard to know what his religion might be -- could be anything, I guess.
My ancestors were Swedes and there wasn’t a mohammed or ahmed or mahmoud amongst any of them...and we’ve traced our lineage back to the vikings, but that’s another story.
Yes, I understand that Mohammed is the favorite baby name in Europe. I also know Abu and Ali are up there as well.
Foreign Muslims are winning the demographic war in Europe.
Remember this little group in So. Oregon?
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "OUSSAMA KASSIR REFLUX" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Oussama Abdullah Kassir AKA Abu Khadija AKA Abu Abdullah AKA zubeiddah1417@hotmail.com AKA khadija1417@hotmail.com DBA Islamic Media Center was finally extradited to the United States this past Tuesday, 25 September 2007. The following is not intended to be comprehensive review of Kassir's activities, but rather to reflect on the material we already had within the archives of the Internet Haganah site.") (September 28, 2007)
Oops, that post was meant for “all.”
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