Sooden whines

Do you remember Harmeet Sooden? The guy who went to Iraq to protest against the US, got kidnapped by terrorists, and then after his release blamed everything on the West and nothing on the terrorists. Well he is at it again according to the ODT:

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has decided not to act on a complaint by activist Harmeet Sooden about his alleged mistreatment in Israel last year.

He was detained for four days in June and then deported after being accused of being a threat to the country’s security.

Very sensible.

Mr Sooden holds both New Zealand and Canadian passports, but was travelling on his Canadian passport at the time.

In a recent letter, MFAT told Mr Sooden that it would not have expected to be notified of his detention as he did not enter Israel on a New Zealand passport.

Mr Sooden said the response raised “serious questions” for New Zealanders with dual citizenship who travelled on a passport of their other nationality. “I am a New Zealand citizen, and I would expect the New Zealand Government to act to protect its citizens overseas.”

What an idiot. If he is travelling on a Canadian passport, they won’t know he is a NZ citizen.

Mr Sooden said he was assaulted and injured, threatened, held in solitary confinement, and denied the right to legal counsel and consular representation before being deported on June 18 last year.

I hope the Canadian Government files a note of protest.

In November 2005, Mr Sooden, Briton Norman Kember, Canadian James Loney and American Tom Fox, who were all working with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq, were kidnapped by a group calling itself the Swords of Righteousness Brigade.

Mr Sooden, Mr Kember and Mr Loney were released after 118 days, but Mr Fox was shot dead while in captivity.

Yet Mr Sooden has no problem with so called resistance fighters shooting his colleagues dead – it is not their fault – the West forced them to do it. But if Israel detains and deports him it is the end of the world.