Halló, Bobby Fischer

What the hell is up with this?

"Chess legend Bobby Fischer was freed today after nearly nine months in a Japanese detention center and headed to the airport for a flight to his new home, Iceland, where he has been granted citizenship.

...Freedom came after an agreement was reached Wednesday with Japanese authorities to avoid Fischer's deportation to the United States, where he is wanted for playing a 1992 chess match in Yugoslavia that violated U.S. sanctions at the time. Iceland -- a chess-loving nation that hosted Fischer's historic Cold War-era victory over Russian grandmaster Boris Spassky in 1972 -- granted Fischer citizenship this week with a 40-0 vote in parliament.

Fischer was defiant as he arrived at the airport. 'I won't be free until I get out of Japan. This was not an arrest. It was a kidnapping cooked up by Bush and Koizumi,' he said, referring to President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

Fischer evaded U.S. authorities for more than a decade with the help of chess fans from Argentina to the Philippines. He was finally arrested in July at an airport outside Tokyo for traveling on a voided U.S. passport."

The guy played chess and this violated sanctions and merited being arrested? Is there more to this story? There has to be, or this is just ridiculous.