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Sure to fuel the far right in Sweden
Topic Started: Dec 11 2010, 08:34 PM (178 Views)
Piano*Dad
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Bull-Carp
Along with the pacifist isolationists...

Bombing in Stockholm
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jon-nyc
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Wow. Thats among the least places you'd expect such a thing.
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bachophile
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HOLY CARP!!!
why?

sweden has been heading for problems for years...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/magazine/05muslims.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
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Piano*Dad
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Agreed.

It's also low hanging fruit. I suspect organizing an 'event' like this is easier in such a place, and there exists a political core of anti-Israeli and Americo-phobic sentiment to muddle any response. Spain was an earlier perfect target. It has a strong left that opposed Spain's participation in Iraq, so the local politics could be affected in interesting ways. Spain soon pulled out its troops. Sweden has a small contingent in Afghanistan and I suspect many Swedes would be happy to pull it out in the hope that that would reduce the likelihood of more such bomb attacks (the pacifist side of the left). Norway and Denmark are also likely spots for an attack like this, though for somewhat different reasons. I'm not sure either of them participates in NATO efforts in Afghanistan, though I could be wrong.
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jon-nyc
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bachophile
Dec 12 2010, 02:58 AM
why?

Because they have no history of Islamic terrorism there, at least not that I'm aware of.

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jon-nyc
Dec 12 2010, 01:31 PM
bachophile
Dec 12 2010, 02:58 AM
why?

Because they have no history of Islamic terrorism there, at least not that I'm aware of.

Lars Vilks was attacked there in May at a lecture at Uppsala University.
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