Swede among terrorist suspects held in Uganda

[Robb]

Source: The Local (Sweden)

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.

The woman was among three people arrested last Wednesday aboard a bus from Nairobi in Kenya to Kamapal in Uganda on suspicion of links to the Somali terrorist group Islamist Al-Shabaab, according to a report in the Ugandan Monitor newspaper.

According to the newspaper's sources the police had received information that the suspects were on their way to Kampala to deploy bombs. Al-Shabaab has previously threatened terror attacks in Uganda and Burundi as the countries have refused to withdraw their forces from Somalia.

One of the three arrested, a woman, had two passports, one of which was Swedish.

Read more: http://www.thelocal.se/31204/20110102/

[CJCRANE]

1. There are some interesting comments from the readers.

It's also interesting to note that Karl Rove has been advising the Swedish government and that Swedes are now coincidentally turning against each other.

[Ian David]

2. Here's a photo of the suspect...

[dipsydoodle]

3. You're a bit adrift there

suspect's picture has now been published.

[Mark Maker]

5. Börk! Börk! Börk!

Fer sure dem Swedes been goink nutz today.

[CJvR]

4. Lots of them lately...

This one in Africa.
One suicide bomber in Stockholm.
The Copenhagen gang of loosers.

[CJCRANE]

6. WikiLeaks: Swedish government 'hid' anti-terror operations

WikiLeaks: Swedish government 'hid' anti-terror operations with America from Parliament
The Swedish government asked American officials to keep intelligence-gathering “informal” to help avoid Parliamentary scrutiny, American diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks show.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8202745/WikiLeaks-Swedish-government-hid-anti-terror-operations-with-America-from-Parliament.html

How's that informal anti-terrorism working out for you?