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FOUR TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN SWEDEN: Responsible for terror against U.S. forces in Iraq.
Aftonbladet ^ | 20 April, 2004 | Johan Taubert

Posted on 04/19/2004 10:30:11 PM PDT by Eurotwit

Four suspected terrorists were arrested yesterday in Stockholm and Malmoe.

The Swedish Police Special International Unit raided several addresses in Sweden.

The terrorists are accused of helping the Iraq resistance commit acts of terror against the US forces in Iraq.

The Swedish Police Special International Unit raided three different addresses in Stockholm, and one address in Malmoe yesterday.

- The four suspects are connected to terrorist activities, islamic extremism that takes place outside of Europe, says investigator, Lars Bellmann.

Anti-USA

According to what this newspapers knows, the raids were conducted upon intelligence shared by the U.S. government.

- These are people with a foreign background who supports the Iraqi insurgency groups.

More arrests are expected.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arrests; iraq; islam; jihad; jihadineurope; swede; sweden; swedes; terrorists
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This is the headline in one of the largest newspapers in Sweden. I did a quick and dirty translation of the first half of the article. The remainder is mainly backgrounder on the Iraqi situation.
1 posted on 04/19/2004 10:30:13 PM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: Eurotwit
Good find, 'twit. ...and thanks for the translation.
2 posted on 04/19/2004 10:33:00 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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3 posted on 04/19/2004 10:35:26 PM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: Eurotwit
Appreciate the effort and quick work of translating this good bit of news from a staunch European ally!
4 posted on 04/19/2004 10:36:23 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Eurotwit
Nice work on making the arrests, Sweden!
5 posted on 04/19/2004 10:38:08 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: ScaniaBoy
Why am I not shocked?
6 posted on 04/19/2004 10:41:12 PM PDT by rmlew (Peaceniks and isolationists are objectively pro-Terrorist)
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To: Eurotwit
Four suspected terrorists were arrested yesterday in Stockholm and Malmoe.

Boy, these thugs really get around don't they?

The way they keep cropping up everywhere around the world, no wonder JeFin' Kerry says it was a lie to state the presence of terrorists in Iraq! /sarcasm

7 posted on 04/19/2004 10:43:39 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Eurotwit
Thanks for finding this, the Islamists are mounting a world wide effort!
8 posted on 04/19/2004 10:44:45 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Eurotwit
Terrrorist wanting to hurt US in Iraq caught in Sweden. They flunked geography I suppose.
9 posted on 04/19/2004 10:47:51 PM PDT by sully777 (Our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
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To: EGPWS
Or that terrorist threats are greatly exaggerated! They keep popping up in the most unsuspecting places, most unlikely Sweden. They must have stuck out like a bunch of sore thumbs among the pasty white population.
10 posted on 04/19/2004 10:49:51 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
You haven't been to Sweden lately?

Sweden is chock full of islamic immigrants. You have zones in the city of Malmoe which are virtually no go zones after they started their mini intifada there, and stones police and fire trucks.
11 posted on 04/19/2004 10:53:48 PM PDT by Eurotwit
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Nah, Sweden just enforces their sedition laws. When will the arrests be made in Berkeley?
12 posted on 04/19/2004 10:54:32 PM PDT by BurbankKarl (for discussion purposes only!)
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To: rmlew
No, this is no big surprise.

Appart from one "Swedish" man sitting in Gitmo, we have the recent case of the "Swede" from Morroco arrested in Copenhagen, and then it was mentioned in a miniscule little piece in Aftonbladet day before yeaterday that another "Swede" had been sentenced in absentia to 20 years i Tunisia for preparing terrorist acts.

We are now starting to reap the harvest of a too lax immigration policy.
13 posted on 04/19/2004 10:56:54 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Or that terrorist threats are greatly exaggerated!

No doubt they have been exaggerated at times, however I sure hope the day doesn't come where governments become complacent enough to right off the exaggerations, after all it only takes one mistake in the defense of such a foe to reek havoc, where as a mistake make by the perpetrators means a minimal loss on their part.

14 posted on 04/19/2004 10:57:49 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Eurotwit
Nope, haven't been to Sweden, period, but thanks for bringing me up to speed of the cultural makeup of Sweden. :)
15 posted on 04/19/2004 10:59:48 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke)
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They keep popping up in the most unsuspecting places, most unlikely Sweden.

Also, keep in mind their strategy dictates they strike against the weak and unprepared, i.e. where they are least expected to strike.

16 posted on 04/19/2004 11:01:29 PM PDT by EGPWS
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Have I've been completely cut off from the news (comes from FReeping too much I guess) or have there been a media black-out on this?
17 posted on 04/19/2004 11:01:44 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Eurotwit
Good find Euro! Posted it here:

THREAD SIX

18 posted on 04/19/2004 11:03:36 PM PDT by JustPiper (What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork)
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To: EGPWS
Agreed. We (United States) cannot allow our guard to be let down or ignored so much so that it allows another 9/11 to happen upon our shores.
19 posted on 04/19/2004 11:03:40 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: EGPWS
Also, keep in mind their strategy dictates they strike against the weak and unprepared, i.e. where they are least expected to strike.

Good point. The most recent example being Madrid, Spain.

20 posted on 04/19/2004 11:05:05 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke)
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