The following articles have been tagged with "Islamist":
National: 4 May 13
Swedish Muslims fighting in Syria and other conflict zones could return home to carry out terror attacks and Sweden has a lot to learn from other EU countries when it comes to preventing Islamist terrorism, a new report claims.
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Politics: 23 Apr 13
Omar Mustafa has spoken out about the "Pandora's box of Islamophobic conspiracy theories" and the party's subsequent actions that made him quit his high-profile position in the Social Democrat party.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Apr 13
In this instalment of The Lowdown, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson has a look at Omar Mustafa, who jumped into the news spotlight after his election to the governing board of the Social Democrats proved controversial.
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Politics: 18 Apr 13
Omar Mustafa's noisy departure from the Social Democrats shows a persistent but flawed view that one person can represent all of Sweden's Muslims, says contributor Nima Gholam Ali Pour.
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National: 15 Apr 13
Around 30 Islamists have travelled from Sweden recently to fight or to be trained to fight in Syria, Swedish security service Säpo revealed on Monday, expressing its concerns over the development.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Mar 13
In the first of a five-part series of love and dating columns, Edinburgh native and single girl Emilia Millicent tells us about the conundrums of finding a suitable boy in Sweden.
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Politics: 25 Dec 12
Syria News, a regime-run television station, has warned Swedes against fighting in the Syrian civil war.
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Politics: 27 Nov 12
Swedish security service Säpo has expressed concerns that Swedes fighting in Syria may commit war crimes after a militant group's recent YouTube recruitment video called on Swedes to join the war effort in Syria.
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Politics: 22 Nov 12
The Sweden Democrats' new justice policy spokesman, unveiled on Thursday as part of a reshuffle in the wake of a racist video scandal, has already made headlines for his comparison of Islamism to Nazism.
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Society: 25 Oct 12
A group of topless women staged a protest on Wednesday at a German outlet of Swedish furniture giant Ikea in reaction to the company's decision to remove women from the version of its catalogue distributed in Saudi Arabia.
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Politics: 18 Oct 12
Israel's envoy to the UN on Tuesday appealed to the organization to persuade a Swedish ship carrying activists and bound for the Gaza strip to turn back.
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National: 7 Oct 12
A Swedish ship with rights activists from several countries aboard sailed from Naples on Saturday in the latest bid to break Israel's blockade against Gaza.
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National: 22 Aug 12
A Swedish man and two other western hostages have appealed to their respective governments for help in a recently published video, after being kidnapped in November in Mali.
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National: 13 Jul 12
Sweden's International Aid Services (IAS) confirmed on Friday that three of its local staff members who were kidnapped in Somalia this week are in the hands of pirates.
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Society: 15 May 12
The “Swedish” national who was arrested in Kenya on suspicions of having links to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabaab turned out not to be Swedish at all but Swiss.
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National: 15 May 12
A Swedish national has been arrested in Kenya on suspicions he has links to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabaab.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Apr 12
Embattled Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu's most recent "anti-Semitic" row is reminiscent of the troubles that plagued London's outspoken ex-mayor Ken Livingstone, argues historian and former Malmö resident David Linden.
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Politics: 4 Apr 12
A pro-Eritrean regime youth group is hosting a large international conference somewhere in Sweden over Easter weekend in what outraged Swedes have billed as "brainwashing" for a "terror regime".
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National: 19 Mar 12
A teacher at a Swedish school in Yemen was gunned down by an unknown perpetrator on Sunday in an attack claimed to be a response by al-Qaeda to what is perceived as Christian proselytising.
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National: 20 Jan 12
Three men accused of plotting to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks were acquitted of the charges in Gothenburg on Friday, but were nevertheless convicted for weapons violations.
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National: 9 Dec 11
The day before a massive right wing demonstration is set to take place in Sweden and shortly before the anniversary of the Stockholm suicide bombing, the government on Friday presented their new plan to combat extremism.
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National: 6 Dec 11
Charges were filed in Gothenburg on Tuesday against three men suspected of plotting to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks who once depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a dog.
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Analysis & Opinion: 17 Oct 11
Just as Sweden helped win the release of two American journalists captured in North Korea in 2009, the US can hopefully find a way to return the favour in Ethiopia before Sweden considers supporting US anti-terror efforts in the region, argues historian Susanne Berger.
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National: 14 Sep 11
A 28-year-old woman reported to be the wife of Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab was arrested in the UK on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into the attack.
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National: 14 Sep 11
Three of the four men with reported ties to the Somali Islamist movement al-Shabaab who were arrested at the weekend on terror suspicions were remanded in custody on Wednesday, while a fourth suspect was released.
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National: 12 Sep 11
The four terrorist suspects held in Gothenburg on Sunday have ties to the Somali Islamist movement al-Shabaab, according to a Swedish media report, with speculation that artist Lars Vilks could have been a target.
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National: 14 Mar 11
Police in Scotland have confirmed that they have charged a 30-year-old man with terror crimes in connection with the suicide bombing in Stockholm in December.
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National: 11 Mar 11
The man who is being held in Glasgow on suspicion of being an accomplice in a suicide bombing in Stockholm in December is thought to have been the financier behind the attack, according to Scottish media.
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National: 8 Mar 11
Police in Scotland have confirmed that a man has been arrested in connection with the suicide bombing in Stockholm in December.
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National: 2 Mar 11
Two Swedes of Somali decent have been acquitted of planning terrorist crimes in Somalia by a Swedish court of appeal.
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National: 10 Feb 11
Sweden's intelligence agency announced on Thursday that there are no indications that the man behind Sweden's first suicide bombing had any accomplices.
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National: 29 Jan 11
As the appeals court trial of two Swedish men convicted of "planning terrorist crimes" in Somalia opened in Gothenburg on Friday, a lawyer for the defence argued that Sweden's anti-terror legislation does not cover the Shebab militia.
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National: 15 Jan 11
Swedish police have arrested a Gothenburg man as a suspect in the attempted murder of the founder of a radical Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group in Oslo, authorities announced on Friday.
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National: 7 Jan 11
Three months before the bomb blasts in Stockholm last month, the suicide bomber trained in Mosul in Iraq and learned how to make bombs, the director of the fight against terrorism in Iraq said on Friday.
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Society: 5 Jan 11
A Kurdish poet who lives in western Sweden has filed a police report after receiving a death threat from Islamists in northern Iraq.
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National: 2 Jan 11
A Swedish national is among a group of three people arrested on Uganda's eastern border on suspicion of having ties to a terrorist group, according to a local media report.
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National: 1 Jan 11
A foiled terrorist plot involving three Swedes who planned an attack on a Danish newspaper was destined to fail, a Swedish terrorism expert said on Saturday.
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National: 29 Dec 10
Three Swedes were among five people arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist act against the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, which published the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Dec 10
While Muslims in Sweden have denounced the country's first suicide bombing, experts caution that Sweden’s far-right may try to exploit the attack in a bid to polarise the nation, AFP’s Rita Devlin Marier explains.
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National: 16 Dec 10
The man who carried out Sweden's first suicide bombing in central Stockholm on Saturday is thought to have had ties to radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza, according to media reports.
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Politics: 15 Dec 10
UK Prime Minister David Cameron admitted on Wednesday that his country needed to do more to fight domestic Islamic extremism following reports that a Swedish suicide bomber lived and studied northwest of London.
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National: 15 Dec 10
Violent Islamic extremism is a threat to Sweden that shouldn't be underestimated, a report published on Wednesday by Swedish security service Säpo has found.
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National: 15 Dec 10
Swedish investigators are continuing their hunt for possible accomplices of a suicide bomber who narrowly missed causing serious damage in Stockholm on Saturday afternoon as police boosted their presence in the city.
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Society: 14 Dec 10
More police and security guards were visible in Stockholm on Tuesday as investigators looked for possible accomplices of a suicide bomber who narrowly missed causing mass casualties in the Swedish capital on Saturday.
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Politics: 14 Dec 10
The suicide bomber who blew himself up in downtown Stockholm on Saturday was within minutes of unleashing untold carnage among holiday shoppers, foreign minister Carl Bildt said on Monday.
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National: 14 Dec 10
The United States is sending seven bomb experts from the FBI to Sweden to assist in the investigation of Saturday's suicide attack in central Stockholm.
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National: 13 Dec 10
The man suspected of being the suicide bomber behind two Stockholm bombings on Saturday was described on Monday as an ordinary friendly young immigrant to Sweden who drastically changed after moving to the UK to study.
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National: 13 Dec 10
Swedish intelligence officials on Monday said they are "98 percent" certain about the identity of the man who blew himself in central Stockholm on Saturday, adding he was "completely unknown" to intelligence agencies.
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National: 13 Dec 10
British police are continuing the search of a home northwest of London on Monday in connection with Saturday's bombings in Stockholm in light of reports that the perpetrator used to live in the area.
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National: 12 Dec 10
A Yemeni Islamist website claimed on Sunday to have identified the bomber who carried out Saturday’s attacks in Stockholm in what the website called a “martyrdom operation”.
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National: 8 Dec 10
Two Swedish citizens of Somali origin, members of the Islamist movement al-Shabaab, were sentenced by a Swedish court on Wednesday to four years in jail for "planning terrorist crimes" in Somalia.
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Politics: 6 Dec 10
A Swedish prosecutor investigating the rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied speculation from one of his lawyers Sunday that the case is politically motivated.
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National: 19 Nov 10
A Swedish citizen was killed in a suicide bomb attack he carried out in Iraq, the Swedish foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday.
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National: 18 Nov 10
The Gothenburg trial of two Swedish citizens charged with "planning terrorist crimes" in Somalia ended on Wednesday.
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National: 15 Oct 10
Two Swedish citizens of Somali origin tied to an al-Qaeda-linked extremist group were charged in Gothenburg on Friday with "planning terrorist crimes" in Somalia.
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National: 2 Oct 10
A small number of people have travelled from Sweden to Pakistan and Afghanistan to participate in terrorist training camps, according to the Security Service, which declined to confirm if there was a link with the raised terror alert.
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National: 1 Oct 10
The Swedish Security Service has raised the terror alert in Sweden to "elevated" due to an increased threat level.
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National: 17 Sep 10
An Islamic revolution akin to the one that swept through Iran in 1979 could easily take place in Sweden, claims the second highest ranking member of the far-right Sweden Democrats.
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National: 8 Jun 10
Swedish artist Lars Vilks has joined a Facebook group entitled "Kill Lars Vilks" in order to engage in discussion with his antagonists as part of his ongoing art project to explore the bounds of free speech.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Jun 10
The Ship to Gaza incident was, to say the least, badly handled by Israel. The blockade of Gaza is wrong. But Swedish activists need to ask themselves tough questions about the consequences of their actions, says Stockholm-based Israeli journalist David Stavrou.
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National: 31 May 10
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has summoned the Israeli ambassador to explain reports that Israeli armed forces have boarded the "Ship to Gaza" humanitarian convoy, killing at least ten people.
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National: 5 May 10
An al-Qaeda-linked extremist group in Somalia has recruited more than 20 young people from Sweden to fight in the war-torn African country, the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) fears.
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Society: 29 Apr 10
The Swedish affiliate of broadcaster Comedy Central has said it will not show two controversial episodes of US satirical cartoon show South Park depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad in a bear costume.
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Science & Technology: 25 Mar 10
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf called on Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to make a final push for Swedish aircraft to win out over French and US rivals as pressure mounts over the destination of the multi-billion-dollar deal.
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National: 11 Feb 10
The Taliban has claimed that it was behind the attack that killed two Swedish solders and their Afghan interpreter on Sunday.
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National: 28 Jan 10
Long-serving Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura has been appointed by UN chief Ban Ki-moon as his new envoy to Afghanistan.
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Politics: 19 Jan 10
Sweden needs to do more to help young “violence-affirming Islamists” turn their backs on extremist organizations, minister for integration Nyamko Sabuni said on Tuesday.
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National: 12 Jan 10
Young Swedes were encouraged to join the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab by the Danish-Somali man who attacked Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe, according to Danish media reports.
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National: 11 Nov 09
Swedish taxpayers helped fund a youth recreation centre in the north Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby which served as a recruiting station for the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab.
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Politics: 11 Nov 09
With Kabul's credibility "bordering disaster", Swedish foreign minster Carl Bildt has called on Hamid Karzai to instigate widespread reforms during his second term as president of Afghanistan.
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Politics: 3 Nov 09
A once moderate Muslim spokesperson who last year came out as an Islamist radical has announced plans to start a political party uniting all of Sweden’s anti-Zionists.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Oct 09
An outspoken Hollywood housewife prompts The Local's Jeanne Rudbeck to weigh up her options: stay a wage slave to the grave or get back to bitchin' in the kitchen.
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National: 12 Oct 09
Sweden’s foreign ministry confirmed on Monday that an additional Swedish citizen is currently being held in prison in Pakistan following the return home at the weekend of a group of Swedes who had been arrested on terror charges.
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National: 2 Oct 09
A Swedish journalist was deported by Egypt on Thursday due to his alleged involvement in pro-Palestinian march.
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Politics: 12 May 09
A prominent Swedish think tank has warned that air cargo companies hired to deliver humanitarian aid and support peacekeeping operations in Africa are also often used to smuggle weapons.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Mar 09
Malmö suburb Rosengård has come to symbolise Sweden's struggles with integration. AFP's Marc Preel examines a community grappling with its identity after a winter marred by rioting and clashes with the police.
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National: 18 Mar 09
A Swedish citizen of Somali origin previously held in Sweden on terror financing suspicions has returned to his homeland to assume a leadership position in a newly created armed insurgent movement.
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Politics: 26 Feb 09
Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt urged national reconciliation between the two main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, when he met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday.
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National: 30 Jan 09
Three academics who demanded to see the source material behind a controversial new report on religious and political extremism in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård have been told that the material no longer exists.
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Society: 28 Jan 09
A majority of Rosengård's inhabitants believe the troubled Malmö suburb has undergone a serious political and religious radicalization over the past five years, a new study shows.
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National: 30 Dec 08
The Israeli flag was set alight on Monday as hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Stockholm to protest against air raid attacks on the Gaza Strip.
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National: 15 Oct 08
The Swedish citizen who on Wednesday evening was reported to have been killed by US forces in Iraq was Abu Qaswara - named on UN and EU terror lists as one of the most senior al-Qaeda leaders in the country.
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Society: 2 Jul 08
Censorship was the main focus of debate as Bangladeshi novelist-in-hiding Taslima Nasreen (left) joined international writers at a literary conference in Stockholm on Tuesday.
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National: 30 Jun 08
Swedish aid worker Ulf Flink has spoken out about his kidnapping at the hands of Islamist militants in Somalia.
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National: 28 Jun 08
Islamist militants have released a Swede and a Dane working for the United Nations who were kidnapped when the fighters seized control of a town in Somalia on Saturday.
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National: 28 Jun 08
Islamist militants kidnapped a Dane and a Swede working for the United Nations and a Somali aid worker when the fighters seized control of a town on Saturday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 May 08
As a growing array of languages jostle for position in the towns and suburbs of Sweden, Faisal Enayat Khan examines some linguistic shortcomings in the country's legal system.
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National: 28 Feb 08
Swedish security service Säpo has arrested three men in Stockholm suspected of preparing terrorist acts and financing terrorism.
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Society: 24 Oct 07
With Turkish hackers resuming their attacks on Swedish websites this week, Sweden's IT security agency is urging domestic hackers to keep their cool.
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National: 19 Sep 07
Websites run by militant Islamists have listed the names of over 100 Swedish companies as possible targets in the ongoing row surrounding the publication in Swedish newspapers of a caricature of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
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National: 14 Aug 07
A man who previously lived in Sweden as an asylum seeker, and is now imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay, has been officially classed by US authorities as an 'enemy combatant'.
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National: 6 Aug 07
Sweden's security service, Säpo, has warned that the country risks becoming a base for recruitment of terrorists.
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National: 23 Jul 07
The victory of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party has been welcomed by Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. "There is reason to claim that European democracy has been consolidated in the country," he says.
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National: 18 Jun 07
A 21-year-old Swede convicted of terror offences in Bosnia has had his sentence reduced substantially by a Sarajevo court. Mirsad Bektasevic's jail term was cut to eight years from the original 15.
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National: 25 May 07
The three Swedes released last week after several months in an Ethiopian prison claim that they were tortured while in captivity. But Swedish officials who visited the men say they received no indications of torture at the time.
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National: 22 May 07
A lawyer has claimed that the three Swedish nationals released last week after several months in Ethiopian captivity were subjected to physical and psychological torture.
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National: 19 May 07
Ethiopia has released three Swedish citizens detained for several months on suspicion of terrorism, according to a spokeswoman at the Swedish foreign ministry.
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National: 18 May 07
Sweden has extradited a Moroccan man suspected by German prosecutors of recruiting radical Muslims to fight US-led forces in Iraq.
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Politics: 3 May 07
Sweden has demanded the release of three of its citizens, who have been held without trial since the beginning of the year.
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National: 28 Mar 07
A 17-year-old Swedish girl accused of fighting on the side of the Islamist militia in the recent Somali war has been released. Three further Swedes arrested at the same time remain in captivity.
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