Posted on 02/14/2006 7:51:06 AM PST by RS
"More details have emerged about the arrest in Prague on Sunday of a person described by the Swedish media as "Osama bin Laden's man in Sweden." The man, a 39-year-old Swede of Lebanese origin, is now in custody awaiting a decision on whether extradition proceedings can begin against him. "
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"Mr Kassir was on a Czech Airlines flight from Stockholm to Beirut, where he hoped to be reunited with members of his family. The plane had a brief stopover in Prague, and as soon as he stepped onto Czech soil he was approached by members of an elite police unit and a balaclava was placed on his head before he was led away."
~snip~
"It will of course be up to a court to decide whether he should trial for any of the allegations against him, but boarding a flight to Beirut via Prague could prove to be something of a mistake."
(Excerpt) Read more at radio.cz ...
Whoops - old news, read the date wrong 12-14-2005 need more coffee
Czechmate!
Send him to Denmark to guard the newpaper. (naked - I just threw that in cause it's valentines day)
Not only that, your link doesn't work.
Why would they put baklava on his head, he wasn't even in Greece.
Yeah, why ruin a perfectly nice piece of baklava like that.
Gosh I love baklava.
I thought baklava was a food.........
Why would they put baklava on his head, he wasn't even in Greece.
I think they put a musical instrument on his head (so we'd stay tuned for further developments.)
Ping
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ISLAMONLINE.net: Cairo - "WARNINGS CARTOONS RISK VIOLENCE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by a Danish daily and other European newspapers are risking to trigger acts of violence around the world, officials and commentators warn.") (February 2, 2006)
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INFOVLAD.net: "NEXT TARGET - DENMARK?" (October 15, 2005)
stepping back in time...
http://radio.cz/en/article/73723
More details emerge on arrest of "bin Laden's man in Sweden"
[14-12-2005] By Rob Cameron
Listen 16kb/s ~ 32kb/s
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "More details have emerged about the arrest in Prague on Sunday of a person described by the Swedish media as "Osama bin Laden's man in Sweden." The man, a 39-year-old Swede of Lebanese origin, is now in custody awaiting a decision on whether extradition proceedings can begin against him.
According to the Czech daily Mlada Fronta Dnes the man is Oussamma Kassir, a 39-year-old Lebanese man who emigrated to Sweden as a teenager in 1984. He's now wanted by the FBI for terrorist offences. The US authorities say he's suspected of trying to set up an al-Qaeda terrorist camp in the U.S. state of Oregon in 2002. The Oregonian newspaper wrote that he arrived in the village of Bly carrying money, poisons and computer disks with instructions on how to make bombs. So obviously the US authorities are very keen to get their hands on him.
Mr Kassir was on a Czech Airlines flight from Stockholm to Beirut, where he hoped to be reunited with members of his family. The plane had a brief stopover in Prague, and as soon as he stepped onto Czech soil he was approached by members of an elite police unit and a balaclava was placed on his head before he was led away.
Mr Kassir is not wanted by either the Czech or Swedish authorities; he was exonerated of terrorist related offences after a trial there in 2003. It's the US that wants him. He can't be extradited from either Sweden or Lebanon because he has both Swedish and Lebanese citizenship, and like most countries neither Sweden or Lebanon extradite their own citizens. But he can be extradited by the Czech Republic. Petr Dimun is the spokesman for the Czech Justice Ministry:"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW YORK -- A Lebanese-born Swede has been charged in a plot to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon with members of a now-defunct Seattle mosque, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. A criminal complaint charging Oussama Kassir with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists was unsealed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, U.S. Attorney Michael J. Garcia said in a release. The case relates to an indictment in Manhattan already charging Mustafa Kamel Mustafa and Haroon Aswat in the plot. Mustafa and Aswat are being detained in England while awaiting extradition to the United States. Kassir, 39, was arrested in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sunday after a warrant was filed with Interpol, Garcia said. He remains detained in Prague as the United States pursues his extradition." ------- "Swede charged in Manhattan with Oregon terror camp plot," By LARRY NEUMEISTER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER, AP, Tuesday, December 13, 2005 · Last updated 3:12 p.m. PT , http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_NY_Terror_Camp_Plot.html
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