Posted on 05/09/2009 3:14:40 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON: The family of an Algerian national held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo for seven years is delighted he is due to arrive in France next week to start a new life. Lakhdar Boumediene, 42, would be the first non-French citizen from Guantanamo to be taken in by France since President Barack Obama pledged to shut down the prison camp when he took office in January.
“I cannot hide the fact I am really happy. Soon, he is going to be freed,” his wife Abassia Bouadjimi told AFP Wednesday from Algeria.
“He really is keen to be free, and be with his wife and children,” said his sister-in-law Louiza Baghdadi, who plans to welcome him into her home in Nice, she told AFP.
French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said earlier in Paris that France was “finalizing details to be able to accept him in France before the end of next week.”
French President Nicolas Sarkozy had agreed following a meeting with Obama in Strasbourg last month to take in the detainee who was cleared for release in November.
Sarkozy applauded Obama’s decision to shut down the camp that he described as an affront to US values and democracy.”
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Will they give him a beret a fake goatee and set him up as an artist?
Just a regular old family man, eh?
Sad that his deviant, misguided, life threatening, and lack of compassion for humanity mind led him astray and made him forget about his family....so sad.
Those silly terrorists have so much growing up to do after all.
Can he speak French?
Won’t be long and he will be out torching cars.
He’ll be hold the starting torch real high! France can just stay French.
And they like Americans. People have been very nice to me and my family there.
Plus, the food's not bad.
You can get a Heineken with your Big Mac at McDonalds.
Or with your "Royale with Cheese."
Those two things alone bolster France's claim about cultural superiority, IMHO.
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