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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.

Apparently one of the three Swedish men who were caught in Pakistan last week, is according to information received by SvT Rapport, Mehdi Ghezali, who for several years was kept imprisoned on the Guantanamo base. According to Pakistani authorities the Swedes were apprehended together with seven Turks and and one Russian, and are suspected of collaboration with al-Qaida. According to informants the prisoners have been transferred to Islamabad. The 30 year old Mehdi Ghezali was caught near the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan in December 2001, and was shortly thereafter handed over to the US military. He was released from...

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. "We haven't got any further with this case since the American law firm we were working with withdraw," said Ghezali's lawyer Anton Strand. Strand and his colleagues at Peter Althin's Stockholm law firm had been trying for three years to contact a US law firm that would pursue a case against the American federal government. Ghezali said he wanted compensation for being kept in Guantánamo...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The United States would free a Swede held at Guantanamo Bay if Sweden made sure he did not engage in terror activities, a Swedish newspaper reported on Sunday, quoting U.S. and Swedish government officials. A Western diplomat told Reuters the report could signal a policy shift aimed at defusing criticism of President Bush's war on terror in the run up to his campaign for re-election next year. Swedish foreign ministry spokesman Jan Janonius said negotiations about Mehdi-Muhammed Ghezali, a 24-year-old Swede held captive for almost two years at the U.S. military base in Cuba, were under way,...