[leilani]

The Swedish gov't distanced itself from it's own Ambassador's condemnation of the Aftenbladet article even though the author of the offensive article in question is distancing himself from its most explosive charge?

From the article at the OP link:

The article, printed in the Swedish paper Aftonbladet, claims that the IDF has been removing organs from PA Arab youth killed in combat or terrorist operations since the early 1990s. The author of the article, Donald Bostrom, admitted Wednesday that he did not know whether or not the story was true.

Then again, according to this blog Bolstrom may just be creating some post-defamation CYA wiggle room for himself.

[muawiyah]

Hmm ~ Sweden has this history of people walking down the street and dropping dead. Maybe that's what's on his mind.

Not that assassination of opponents is desirable, but it ordinarily raises little concern in Sweden unless a really big ruckus is made. It is a place that's willing to leave you alone with your opinions and your enemies if you wish ~ kind of a non-Western Civilization sort of attitude, but it happens.

East Asians view it as being "cold", although they, themselves, ordinarily show little expression ~ but they'll tell you if you ask. (Image ~ Big Swede, a regular Varangian type, walks up, grabs a Chinese guy off the street in Shanghai and says "Hey, you think I'm cold and unfeeling". The Chinese guy says "Erk!" and tries to breath.)

More than likely we have a newspaper guy who bit off a lot more than he imagined would or could happen. One does suppose he imagines finding himself on an airplane being pushed out a door or something and would like for the plane to just land first.

Frankly, the government there really doesn't care. Still, if he were an active churchgoer (and church tax payer) he could go pray or something.