Swede loses EU terror link case

September 22nd, 2005 at 21:00 Björn Hallberg

So to sum it up, some arbitrary US imposed pretence for empire trickled down and hit an unfortunate Swedish citizen. Tough shit? Well according to the EU it seems so. A fluke of US influence? According to Jan Hallenberg of FHS, yes. I’m not so sure and anticipate more “flukes” to follow.

The Local - A Swede whose assets were frozen because he was suspected of links to terror groups has had his case rejected by the Court of First Instance of the European Union.

The court noted that the EU, according to the Treaty of Rome, has the right to impose sanctions on third countries. It ruled that this also applied to individuals in the fight against terrorism.

Public international law dictates that members of the international community have duties under the UN convention that take precedence over all other considerations, including the European Convention on Human Rights and EU treaties.

The most Kafkaesqu thing in all of this is that because of far reaching and broad new “anti-terror” laws, a person can be charged for affiliation with terrorism, have his assets seized and not even be presented with formal or detailed allegations.
It should also be noted that not even the FBI believes that Al Barakaat is linked to terror any more. I guess we’ll have to wait for that to trickle down too. Though I expect that to move a little slower.

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