Lindh murder: Balkan link?

[dArKeR]

Stockholm - Police investigating the fatal knifing of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh are pursuing a possible Balkan connection, the daily Aftonbladet said on Saturday.

Mijailo Mijalovic, 24, who is helping police with their inquiries into the murder, was described in the report as a Serbian nationalist with a grudge against Lindh for having supporting the Nato bombing of Serbia during the 1996 Kosovo war.

Aftenbladet cited a friend of Mijalovic, whom it did not identify, as the source of its information.

"He was very much affected when Lindh said it was OK to bomb Serbia," the friend was quoted as saying.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1422371,00.html

[Bossy Monkey]

1. Sweden isn't in NATO

This sounds silly (No criticism of you, dArKeR; just sounds like a spurious explanation on the part of the investigators or the accused)

[gp]

2. plus as far as i can remember

the nato bombing didnt happen in 1996 but in 1999?
could someone confirm?

[PATRICK]

3. It raises another possiblity

Sweden has been instrumental in PEACE negotiations and mediated settlements. That is more likely the target if politically motivated, but the fruit loops who have been assassins have been known to defy logical expectiation.