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Swedish hunt for submarine descends into farce
Finding a submarine was like (looking for) Jesus, Swedish Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad said this week. Everyone knows who he is, but no one has seen him.
The Swedish military spent seven days searching the waters around the 30,000 islands of the Stockholm archipelago. But on Friday morning, they finally called off the hunt for a supposed foreign submarine in an operation that has been tinged with farce throughout.
A picture of a mysterious black-clad individual reported by some media as possibly being a Russian spetsnaz special forces soldier turned out to be Ove, a local fisherman. A story by Swedish tabloid Expressen on heavily armed troops involved in the search was illustrated by a picture that was actually a boat full of reporters from Dagens Nyheter.
Sverker Göransson, supreme commander of Swedens armed forces, also raised eyebrows with his choice of language when discussing the case. This is very serious. It is plainly and simply fucked up that something or someone is inside Swedish territory right now, he said on Tuesday.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9bd892c2-5b7c-11e4-b68a-00144feab7de.html
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Swedish hunt for submarine descends into farce (Original Post)
jakeXT
Oct 2014
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MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)1. Sounds like an episode of Lilyhammer. nt
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)3. I've only seen the Sopranos and the Lilyhammer trailer, is it any good? /nt
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)4. It's good.
I watch it sometimes.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,900 posts)2. It's that undetectable caterpillar drive.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)5. Must be good dope. nt