"Swede" held in Pakistan over possible terror links

news.yahoo.com ^ | KHALID TANVEER,

[VU4G10]

MULTAN, Pakistan – A Swedish national with the same name as a Swede arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and held for two years at Guantanamo Bay was detained in Pakistan last month on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, a police officer said Friday.

Mehdi-Muhammed Ghezali was arrested with two other Swedes ...

[Uncle Miltie]

Where’s the obligatory Swedish Bikini Team pic?

[KarlInOhio]

Where’s the obligatory Swedish Bikini Team pic?

Here's the team for "Swede" Mehdi-Muhammed Ghezali.

[SandWMan]

“Mehdi-Muhammed Ghezali “....a traditional Swedish name. It immediately brings to mind images of tall, blonde people, quaint 18th century timber framed towns, and snowskis, doesn’t it?

[ScottinVA]

Remember the Swedes of the good old days?

[ScottinVA]

It’s distressing what western countries are allowing unrestrained islamic infestation do to them.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“A Swedish national with the same name as a Swede arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and held for two years at Guantanamo Bay was detained in Pakistan last month on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, a police officer said Friday.”

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(In my best liberal voice) “See, you can’t just assume that Muslims are the only terrorists. This terrorist is Swedish, so he’s probably a Lutheran.”

“Mehdi-Muhammed Ghezali was arrested with two other Swedes”

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“Umm . . . lots of Lutherans are named Mehdi-Muhammed. Say, turn the page towards the crossword, won’t you?”

[AuH2ORepublican]

I was initially shocked to see quotes around the word “Swede” in the title, since AP would be loath to hint that a Muslim terrorist named Mehdi-Muhammed isn’t a real Swede, but I then confirmed that it was VU4G10, not AP, that showed common sense. Still, I think that the quotation marks should be removed from the title of the post, since they weren’t in the AP story’s title.