Posted on 11/10/2005 9:27:02 AM PST by joan
A Swedish teenager who is being held in Sarajevo suspected of terrorist offences has been identified by Bosnian police as a radical Islamist known by the code-name Maximus.
The 18-year old has had email contact with three men arrested in Britain suspected of planning an attack on the White House, police sources in the Bosnian capital told weekly newspaper Slobodna Bosna.
“There is definitely a link between Sweden, Denmark and Britain,” said Mirsad Fasic, a journalist at Slobodna Bosna.
“In the computer that was taken from the apartment rented by the Swede and the Dane with Turkish ancestry, there were pictures of the White House and films about bomb-making,” Fasic added.
The Swede and the 19-year old Dane were arrested in Sarajevo on 19th October. A belt of the type used by suicide bombers was one of the objects found in their flat. Police also found guns and 30 kilograms of explosives.
Seven people have since been arrested in Denmark, and three in the UK. They had had email contact with a Swedish Islamist known as Maximus – now known to be the 18-year old.
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Amateur Hour.
Do they have Danish and Swedish names like Achmed and Mohammed?
No, they have names like Mohammed Johannsen or Achmed Olsen..
A Bosnian Moslem "Swede" and a Turkish Moslem "Dane." Funded, no doubt, by Saudi Moslem "Arabs." It's a small world, after all.
Uh-oh...
Could it be?
I don't know if we could ever get him away from the bra/boob threads to ask him.
Hamid al-Akbar Christian Andersen.
(wouldnt be tough to pull a fast one on old Goran)
Published: 9th November 2005 15:56 CET
Swedish PM slams French government over riots
Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson has criticised the way the French government has handled the unrest in the country.
"They have chosen a confrontational route and it is hard to see how it will become a dialogue," he said.
Persson reserved his strongest criticism for France's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who described the rioters as racaille, or 'rabble'.
"I'm surprised by the choice of words, at the start and as things went on. There is an implacability in the attitude towards the situation and I don't think it will lead to a dialogue," said Persson.
"There is justifiable criticism of French society and you don't confront this with the sort of expression Sarkozy used," he continued to a group of journalists in Stockholm on Wednesday.
The Prime Minister said that he was not willing to review the French government's method of handling the unrest, but at the same time criticised the decision to send in a powerful police presence and to introduce a state of emergency:
"It's clear that if you resort to emergency legislation then it's naturally very dramatic, the like of which I haven't seen in Europe in the last 30-40 years. It feels like a very hard and confrontational approach."
Persson said he sees what is happening in France as a warning to the rest of Europe of the tensions that are built up as a consequence of poor integration policies and lingering unemployment since the slump of the 1990s.
"It does not mean that the rest of us should think we don't have a problem, that would be far too arrogant," he said.
"But obviously a simple thing like the fact that young people in France do not have the option of a study loan means that a great many are shut out from what, today, is necessary for moving on in society, namely further education."
However, he said that the Liberal Party's warning that the same thing could also happen in Sweden was "unnecessary".
"Rather than being in any way self-righteous, we should be vigilant, so such warnings are not needed. The vast majority recognise that this is a serious situation," he said.
Persson also rejected the idea of more local police as a "first step" in Sweden.
"It could be a method that works, but I don't believe that's the way we would choose in Sweden. For us it is about working on the opportunities for education. To start sending out signals about strengthening the police is to break with the political line we have chosen to follow," he said.
Max, you have been a naughty, naughty, boy!!!!
When I hear the words "Swedish teen" I tend to think of names like Anna and Katrina, not Mohammed. Damn the media. They are trying to avoid saying "Young muslim male in White House terror plot."
Al Qaeda wishes to formally thank all of those pro-Muhammedan nitwits who helped them establish bases of operations in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Good job guys! Make sure to wave at each other at your next 9/11 party.
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