Japan justice minister agrees to consider sending Fischer to Iceland

[allemand]

TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese Justice Minister Chieko Nohno agreed to consider fugitive US chess legend Bobby Fischer's plea to go to Iceland to avoid deportation and potential jail in the United States.

Fischer and his lawyers last week asked Japanese authorities to send him to Iceland, which has offered the maverick chess master residency three decades after he played his most famous match there.

"Generally speaking, the destination of his deportation will be the United States but we will consider his wishes and whether he has a country willing to accept him as we decide where to deport him," Nohno told reporters.

Japanese authorities earlier said that people are deported to their countries of origin barring exceptional circumstances, such as their homelands being at war.

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Great news !

[The Zanti Regent]

1. Fischer is even more of an idiot than the Chimp is.

Google "Bobby Fischer" and listen to what that ass said about 911.

He makes Ezra Pound look like George M Cohan!

[allemand]

2. He is mentally ill. It doesn't seem very reasonable to me

to take seriously what a mentally ill person says.

[Benhurst]

3. Oh, well. That's the sort of thing you have to put up with in

a free country.

Thank God for George Bush and the Republicans. Now that the Constitution has been shredded, we won't have to stand for such nonsense.

[Nikepallas]

4. Okay, for those of us Too Dumb(meaning me) or young to fully

understand what's the big deal about Bobby Fischer? I've tried to read up on it and it's like articles I have read are slanted one way or the other and I still don't understand what he did.

Did he cheat on something?

[InvisibleBallots]

5. he played an illegal chess match

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