Sweden urges due process for Iraq detainee

Sweden says it has urged the U.S. to prosecute or release a Swedish citizen held by American forces in Iraq. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Amelie Heinsjo says the man has been held as a security detainee since May. She says Sweden has presented "a demand for a legal process and that he is given a public defense counsel, or that he is released." Heinsjo gave no other details about the case Monday. Newspaper Norrkopings Tidning reports the man became a Swedish citizen after moving from Iraq in 2000. It says he returned to Iraq in May to start a construction business. The U.S. interprets the U.N. Security Council resolution that authorizes the Iraq mission as giving the coalition broad powers to detain anyone believed to pose a security threat.