Skip Nav | Home | Mobile | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Security | Support Us

World

Sweden could have prevented terrorist attacks in Brussels!

Arri Gibs | 28.03.2016 08:33 | World

According to Dagens Nyheter daily, one of the culprits in the tragedy in Brussels Mohamed Belkaid had been registered in the suburbs of Stockholm since 2010 and had close ties to Bakraui brothers and a mastermind of Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam. (  http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/ficktjuven-i-stockholm-levde-i-terrorgruppens-centrum/ ). He fought for Islamic State in Syria in 2014, he was on the list of terrorists which defectors handed over to Sky News, he was involved in terrorist attacks in Paris, and he has been on the international wanted list since December, 2015. Belgian and French security services have many times asked their Swedish counterparts to help them capture Belkaid, however Swedish security service SÄPO made no attempt to assist them. Even killing of the terrorist a week before the explosions was done in contempt of Stockholm which refused to disclose information about his movements in Sweden. A timely arrest of Belkaid would surely have enabled the security services to find Bakraui brothers and prevent the deaths of dozens of people in the capital of Belgium!



It is not the first time that the criminal inaction of Swedish law-enforcement agencies hinders fair investigation of dramatic terrorist attacks in other countries and results in another common European tragedy. It is still rather puzzling and raises many questions why Mutar Muthanna Majid was released in November 2015, despite charges of plotting terrorist attacks similar to the ones in Paris. Majid was considered to belong to Islamic State, was suspected of being involved in tragic events in Paris, and resisted arrest. (  http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article21793834.ab ). Even if all the charges were not confirmed, closing the case on the personal order of Prime Minister Löfven is an exceptional example from the international anti-terrorist practice. In case there are other terrorist attacks involving Majid, it would be impossible for the Kingdom of Sweden to atone for the sufferings of the European people!

It is rather clear that acknowledging the threat of Islamic terrorism and devastating consequences of the migrant crisis would lead to dismantling the project of multicultural society declared in Sweden by the law of integration in 1997. It will result in a shattering decline of influence of the Social Democratic Party and make Löfven drop out of politics. Consequently SÄPO and other security services are forced to turn blind eyes to numerous robberies, murders and rapes perpetrated by immigrants from the Middle East who don't conceal that their actions are a "war against the Swedes". (  http://www.svd.se/samsyn-kravs-om-en-nationell-sakerhetsstrategi/om/hotet-mot-sverige ). If political survival of a number of high-ranking officials and affiliated heads of security services, who hide behind the ideals of national and religious tolerance, is more important than the ideals of law, order and people's security, then this is a domestic affair of Sweden. But if the Kingdom time and again turns out to be a weak link in the European system of countering international terrorism then it has to be responsible before the victims of its policy in Paris, Brussels and other places, or it has to fundamentally change the political elite that defamed itself, or it has to stop being a part of united Europe!

 https://youtu.be/l-2dMCIgXP4

Arri Gibs

Publish

Publish your news

Do you need help with publishing?

/regional publish include --> /regional search include -->

World Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Server Appeal Radio Page Video Page Indymedia Cinema Offline Newsheet

secure Encrypted Page

You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.

If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech