Created: 05.10.2004 18:22 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:22
MSK, 3 hours 45 minutes ago
Danish authorities have established a constant watch over former Guantanamo prisoner Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane who had vowed to go to Chechnya to take part in the war against Russian forces, the Danish ambassador in Moscow told Russia’s Interfax news agency on Tuesday.
Danish authorities have reacted to recent public remarks made by Slimane Abderrahmane, seized his passport, arranged for him to live in a set place and established a constant watch over him, ambassador Lars Vissing said.
The statement was made after the ambassador was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday over Slimane Abderrahmane’s promises to continue his war against “infidels” in Chechnya.
The man said on live television he plans to travel to Chechnya and join Islamic militants fighting Russian forces. “I am going to Chechnya and fight for the Muslims,” Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane said during an interview on the DR-1 television channel last Wednesday. “The Muslims are oppressed in Chechnya and the Russians are carrying out terror against them.”
A pledge not to engage in warfare was a condition of Abderrahmane’s release, and Danish authorities are already looking into reconsidering his release. Danish Justice Minister Lene Espersen was quoted by AP as saying Abderrahmane’s comments represented “a new situation that the law enforcement authorities must reconsider.”
Of his pledge, Abderrahmane reportedly said, “They can use it as toilet paper over there in the United States.”
Abderrahmane, whose mother is Danish and father Algerian, has said he was in a training camp to join Islamic fighters in Chechnya when he was arrested in Pakistan and transferred to Guantanamo in February 2002.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/10/05/denmarkwatch.shtml
And that is about all his darn pledge is worth, IMHO!