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SOUNDBITE: (English) Bobby Fischer, former world chess champion:Q: \"How does it feel to be free?\"\"Great, great.\"2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bobby Fischer, former world chess champion:\"Totally illegal. This was not an arrest, it was a...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bobby Fischer, former world chess champion:\u003cbr/\u003eQ: \"How does it feel to be free?\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Great, great.\"\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bobby Fischer, former world chess champion:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Totally illegal. This was not an arrest, it was a kidnapping, because the charges that the Japanese charged me with are total nonsense. They said I illegal entered Japan on April 15 with an invalid passport. It's nonsense. My passport was perfectly good. They have never explained what they are talking about. They gave me a letter from the US Embassy in the Pillippines with no signature, no address, no envelop, no receipt, nothing. This is what the case is all about. A letter with no signature, a photocopy of a letter. There is no case. It's total nonsense. This was a kidnapping. Totally illegal from day one. Bush does not respect law. He just calls people a ..... enemy combatant. It's like in the comics, you know. Like Billy Batson used to say 'Shazam' and he becomes Captain Marvel. He just says enemy combatant, now you have no legal rights. It's a farce. It's the same with this kidnapping. Absolutely no legality to it. It's just my misfortune that this idiot Koizumi, this bastard, is like a close friend of Bush and he's willing to do anything that Bush tells him.\"\u003cbr/\u003eQ: \"You were saying you thought the government of Japan is kind of corrupt or.....\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes, yes, Koizumi in particular. This man is mentally ill, there's no question he's mentally ill in my opinion. He told Bush, 'I want you, I need you, I love you'. This is in the newspapers, the Japanese papers. I've never heard of a politician prostrating himself like this before another politician, openly. Normally when you are a stooge like Koizumi you will try to hide it, right. But this guy is openly a stooge. He's sick, he's a sick bastard. This was absolutely cooked up between Bush and Koizumi, no question about that. Behind Bush were the Jews, telling him what to do, then Bush was telling  telling Koizumi what to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bobby Fischer, former world chess champion:\u003cbr/\u003e\"First of all the United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel, it has no right to exist. That country, the United States, belongs to the Red Man, the American Indian.\"\u003cbr/\u003eChess legend Bobby Fischer said on Thursday that freedom felt \"great\" after nine months' detention in Japan, where he had been held by authorities for trying to leave the country using an invalid US passport.  \u003cbr/\u003eFischer, released from Japanese custody earlier on Thursday, stopped over in Denmark before he was to catch a flight to his new home, Iceland, which has granted him citizenship.\u003cbr/\u003eOn the flight from Tokyo to Copenhagen, Fischer accused Japanese officials of \"kidnapping\" him by taking him into custody in July.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This was a kidnapping because the charges that the Japanese charged me with are totally nonsense,\" he told Associated Press Television News on the flight.\u003cbr/\u003e\"My passport was perfectly good,\" the eccentric genius insisted. \u003cbr/\u003eAsked what it will be like to be free, he replied: \"Great, great.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFischer was the first passenger to emerge from the Tokyo-Copenhagen flight. Police officers ushered him and his fiancee, Miyoko Watai, down a staircase and into an unmarked van. They were set to board another flight to the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, in the evening.\u003cbr/\u003e62-year-old Fischer claims his US passport was revoked illegally and sued to block a deportation order to the United States, where he is wanted for violating sanctions imposed on the former Yugoslavia by playing an exhibition match against Russian Boris Spassky in 1992.\u003cbr/\u003eThis week, Iceland's Parliament stepped in to break the standoff by giving Fischer citizenship. Iceland is where he won the world championship in 1972, defeating Spassky in a classic Cold War showdown that propelled him to international stardom.\u003cbr/\u003eFischer called Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi a \"bastard who does anything that Bush tells him to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Koizumi is mentally ill in my opinion,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eMoving to Iceland doesn't necessarily mean Fischer has beaten Washington's effort to prosecute him. Iceland, like Japan, has an extradition treaty with Washington.\u003cbr/\u003eA federal grand jury in Washington, meanwhile, reportedly is investigating possible money-laundering charges involving Fischer, and he may face tax-related charges as well. \u003cbr/\u003eFischer was reported to have received US$3.5 (m) million (�2.7 million) from the competition in the former Yugoslavia, and boasted then that he didn't intend to pay any income tax on the money.\u003cbr/\u003eIceland's ambassador to Japan, Thordur Oskarsson, said before Fischer's release that Washington sent a \"message of disappointment\" to the Icelandic government over giving Fischer citizenship.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Despite the message, the decision was put through Parliament on humanitarian grounds,\" said Oskarsson, who accompanied Fischer on the flight to Europe.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Washington on Tuesday, the US State Department said it had officially asked Japan to hand over Fischer.\u003cbr/\u003eTokyo initially refused Fischer's request to go to Iceland, saying Japanese law only allowed his deportation to the country of his origin. But following Iceland's decision on Monday, Japanese Justice Minister Chieko Nono said officials would consider letting Fischer go there.\u003cbr/\u003eFischer became a chess icon when he dethroned Spassky in a series of games in Iceland, claiming the United States' first world chess championship in more than a century. \u003cbr/\u003eBut he gave up the title a few years later to another Soviet, Anatoly Karpov, by refusing to defend it. He then fell into obscurity before resurfacing to play the 1992 exhibition rematch against Spassky in the former Yugoslavia.\u003cbr/\u003eFischer won the rematch. 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