Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali (Arabic: مهدي محمد غزالي) (born 5 July 1979), 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 trav...
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Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali (Arabic: مهدي محمد غزالي) (born 5 July 1979), 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.
According to the Stockholm News Pakistani security officials "suspected Ghezali to have been involved in a prison uprising where 17 people were killed" -- an assertion Ghezali is reported to have denied. A man bearing Ghezali's passport was one of twelve foreigners Pakistani security...
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