Mehdi Muhammed Ghezali (Arabic: محمد مهدي غزالي‎) (b. 1979 (age 29–30)), in media previously known as the Cuba-Swede (Swedish: Kubasvensken), is a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held as what the United States termed an unlawful combatant at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp on Cuba between January 2002 and July 2004. Prior to his capture Ghezali attended a Muslim religious school and mosque in the United Kingdom before travelling to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and finally ended up in Pakistan where he was captured. Following his release from detention the Swedish government has not brought any further criminal charges against him for criminal misconduct prior to his capture.

A man bearing Ghezali’s passport was one of twelve foreigners Pakistani security officials reported were captured trying to cross into Afghanistan on August 28 2009. According to the Associated Press Ghezali was “reportedly part of a group of 156 suspected al-Qaida fighters caught while fleeing Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains.

So, the question goes… how many strikes do you get at being a presumed terrorist? In Guantanamo for a couple of years, released and – according to his parents – at some pilgrimage to Mecca. But no, he was back to the place where he was apprehended the first time around. Makes me think Swedes of Finnish and Algerian descent are pretty dumb.