| So what's Human Rights Watch's take on this? |
A Danish man who was released from U.S. military detention in Guantanamo Bay told a television interviewer he plans to travel to Chechnya and join Islamic militants fighting Russian forces. In a live interview with the DR-1 television channel Wednesday night, Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane said he planned to go into hiding and then "try to find a way to Chechnya."
| Here's a ticket to Moscow. A party will meet you at the gate and direct things from there. |
| Not that the Chechen thugs are connected to international terrorism, mind you... |
As a condition of his release from Guantanamo in February, Abderrahmane pledged to refrain from warfare. Of the pledge, he said, "They can use it as toilet paper over there in the United States."
| "My word? My word counts for nothing! They're infidels and I ain't! And you're infidels, too!" |
Abderrahmane was not charged upon his return to Denmark. He was widely criticized earlier this week when he told Danish media that Denmark's prime minister and the nation's troops in Iraq were legitimate targets for terrorists. Although lawmakers criticized the remarks as out of bounds and said they amounted to incitement to violence, they did not violate any Danish laws.
| They come somewhere between "free speech" and "stupidity." |
"I am going to Chechnya and fight for the Muslims," the 31-year-old Dane said during an interview on the daily news show, Nyhedsmagasinet. "The Muslims are oppressed in Chechnya and the Russians are carrying out terror against them."
| "Like when the Russers occupied that school and killed all them kids..." |
His lawyer, Tyge Trier, could not immediately be reached for comment.
"Tyge! Telephone!"
"Not now! I'm taking the gaspipe!" |
Abderrahmane, whose mother is Danish and father Algerian, has claimed he was in a training campaign to join Islamic fighters in Chechnya when he was arrested in Pakistan and transferred to Guantanamo in February 2002. Danish Justice Minister Lene Espersen said Abderrahmane's comments represented "a new situation that the law enforcement authorities must reconsider." Pia Kjaersgaard, the leader of the Danish People's Party, said Abderrahmane's behavior was "completely grotesque" and urged the government to hand him over to the U.S. authorities.
| Don't look at us. You're the ones who whined and made a nuisance of yourselves until we gave him back to you. Now deal with him. |
Another lawmaker, Elisabeth Arnold of the centrist Radical Party, said he represented "a risk."
| ... which is why he was in Gitmo in the first place. Dumbass. |
In previous interviews, Abderrahmane has said Danish authorities seized his passport after he returned to Denmark in February. He has also said he cannot leave the country without the permission of the Danish Intelligence Security Service. |