There is another scandal related to this that is not mentioned in this story.
The Iraqi embassy in Sweden has apparently been issuing thousands of fake Iraqi passports for cash. These people with the fake passports, promtly gets granted asylum in Sweden.
This has already caused a minor diplomatic incident between Iraq, Sweden and Denmark. Denmark is irate that some of these fake "Swedish Iraqis" are entering Denmark.
Even the Norwegian police is invesigating the whole brouhaha. Infact, I think it was the Norwegian investigators who blew the lid of the whole operation.
According to a Swedish paper, as many as 26 000 fake Iraqi passports have been issued. Additionally it was just revealed in Swedish media that the Swedish immigration services has known about it for a long time, but said nothing and done nothing about it.
Scaniaboy, do you know anymore about this?
Cheers.
No, that's about it. You are correct - it appears that the story broke thanks to the Norwegian investigators.
However, all amid Libby/Plamegate stories, the Bildt/Sahlin scandal (so far only for Swedish consumption) etc I will try and see if I can dig up something.
Cheers and thanks for the ping,
SB
PS: Snapphanen at http://dansk-svensk.blogspot.com/ has followed this story, at least from the Danish viewpoint. Good blog, but you know that already, don't you?