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The Strangest Case: Amazing that Yugoslavia, which wasn't exactly so friendly to its Bosnian and Kosovar Muslims citizens, (and which, I should point out, has ceased to exist as a country a couple years ago), has turned out apparently to be one of the only places willing to take the released Canadian former Guantanamo prisoner Abdulrahman Khadr. Khadr, 20, was reportedly dumped without a passport, money, or anything by US troops. (That's not exactly how the DoD describes it in their press release).
"When Khadr last contacted his grandmother in Toronto over the weekend from Yugoslavia, he said it would be his last call to her and his last attempt to get back home. He was running out of money, which he borrowed from some friends in Afghanistan, and was scared of being picked up by authorities and jailed again...[His lawyer] Galati could not explain how a man with little money and no official documents had travelled from Afghanistan to Pakistan, Turkey and Yugoslavia over the past few weeks. Khadr, whose father and brother were allegedly members of al-Qaida, was not returned immediately to Canada from Cuba because American officials told Khadr he was not wanted," reports the Canadian Press.