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Sweden's post-blast air thick with tension
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Ritt Goldstein | 12.18.2010
In September, a far right party with a neo-Nazi past entered Sweden's parliament, and on 11 December the country had its first suicide bombing. With such extremism surfacing, one can literally feel 'a tension' in daily life, people trying to sort out the haunting question of 'where do we go from here'. Municipal corruption scandals began making Sweden's news in April; in September the far right Swedish Democrats (SD) - where prior to 2001, swastikas and Nazi uniforms could be seen at their meetings - were elected to Parliament; in October, police announced that an unknown gunman had been randomly gunning down immigrants in Southern Sweden's SD stronghold of Malmö; and, on 11 December Sweden had its first ever suicide bombing, the attacker being an immigrant who grew up in the small Southern Swedish town of Tranås. Sweden's post-blast air thick with tension DALARNA, Sweden - Sweden's first suicide bombing killed no one but the bomber himself, yet the two explosions in downtown Stockholm have ripped through already injured harmony in Swedish society and fractured the country's sense of itself. The blasts, occurring a short walk from each other and minutes away from where the Nobel Prizes had been awarded, were termed the work of a "terrorist" within a few hours of going off on Saturday. The Swedish Security Police (Sapo) stepped in to take over the investigation the next morning. "He wasn't known to us prior to this," said Sapo communications officer Tina Israelsson, referring to Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, a 28-year-old "Middle-Eastern immigrant" who had emigrated to Sweden in 1992. To Full Article http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LL18Ak05.html |
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