US Sets Terms for Freeing Guantanamo Swede-Report

US Sets Terms for Freeing Guantanamo Swede-Report
Sun November 16, 2003 11:31 AM ET

By Peter Starck
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, but that Washington had not yet come up with any concrete proposal.

The daily Svenska Dagbladet quoted an unnamed senior U.S. official as saying Washington wanted to set in motion a process that would see Sweden take responsibility for Ghezali -- one of some 660 prisoners captured mostly during the war in Afghanistan and held without charge or access to lawyers.

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there will be a great demand to hear his story. We'll finally know the truth about what is going on down there.

I'd have to do some searching, but others have definitely been released.

Does this mean we want them to take the flak for locking him up indefinitely? Would he just be kept under surveillance or not allowed to leave the country? Would it be sufficient to try him in a swedish court and free him if he's found not guilty?