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Report: Ex-Gitmo detainee suspected as Bulgaria suicide bomber
NBCNEWS.com ^ | 7/19/2012 | NBC News staff and wire reports

Posted on 07/19/2012 2:04:14 PM PDT by Palmetto Patriot

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mehdi Ghezali was named by Bulgarian media Thursday as the suspected suicide bomber who killed at least seven people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists.

The Muslim Swede had been held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba from 2002 to 2004, according to media reports picked up by The Times of Israel.

He previously studied at a Muslim religious school and mosque in Britain, and traveled to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. He was released to Swedish custody in 2004, the Times reported. The Swedish government did not press charges, it said.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnews.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bulgaria; busattack; gitmo; gitmoterrorist; israelterrorattack; suicidebomber; terrorism
Inmate #166?
1 posted on 07/19/2012 2:04:22 PM PDT by Palmetto Patriot
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To: Palmetto Patriot
The Swedish government did not press charges, it said.

I'd say the Swedes have blood on their hands...

2 posted on 07/19/2012 2:10:25 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

Who’s idea was it to release him and why?

Can we use this to insist on more strict criteria prior to releasing current prisoners?


3 posted on 07/19/2012 2:11:34 PM PDT by G Larry (I'm under no obligation to be a passive victim!)
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To: G Larry

He should not have even made it to Gitmo alive.


4 posted on 07/19/2012 2:13:04 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Palmetto Patriot
Another Gitmo Grad gone bad. We could release every Death Row inmate in America and they would have a lower recidivist rate than Gitmo Grads.

As I've said here before, simply go 30 miles off shore Gitmo, chum the waters, then fly every SOB over the chum and drop kick the bastards out of the Black Hawk/Shit-hook. Sharks gotta eat to!

5 posted on 07/19/2012 2:17:37 PM PDT by donozark (Col. C.Beckwith:I'd rather go down the river with 7 studs than with a hundred shitheads.)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

With a fake Michigan drivers license.

Of all states,Michigan. Interesting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/world/europe/explosion-on-bulgaria-tour-bus-kills-at-least-five-israelis.html?pagewanted=all


6 posted on 07/19/2012 2:18:30 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

No doubt it’s our fault for being mean to him.


7 posted on 07/19/2012 2:19:46 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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Re: With a fake Michigan drivers license.

Gadzooks! Good thing they didn't find... his Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth!

8 posted on 07/19/2012 2:25:00 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: PGR88

That wasn’t understood in 2002.

It’s all too clear now.

NO incentive for “capturing” anybody these days.


9 posted on 07/19/2012 2:31:11 PM PDT by G Larry (I'm under no obligation to be a passive victim!)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

The online article says it was NOT him...???


10 posted on 07/19/2012 2:41:45 PM PDT by GodfearingTexan
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To: GodfearingTexan

No, the Swedish security police has denied it was Ghezali who carried out the terror attack in Bulgaria.

(They should know. They are tasked to keep him under surveillance.)


11 posted on 07/19/2012 2:53:23 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

Somebody’s got blood on their hands for letting this vermin out of Gitmo just so that he could turn around and kill those Israelis.


12 posted on 07/19/2012 3:05:55 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

The Swedish government did not press charges, it said.

LIberals love muslims.


13 posted on 07/19/2012 7:01:33 PM PDT by ElPaseo
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To: Bender2

Damn! Just damn! Someone should be hung for this SNAFU.


14 posted on 07/20/2012 1:34:16 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Palmetto Patriot
The Swedish government did not press charges, it said.

And seven dead Israelis thank the Swedish government. Europe is finished.

15 posted on 07/20/2012 1:36:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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