Anyone for a sauna? A country we usually associate with safe cars and sensible people has blasted on to the front pages of newspapers in almost every country in the world, following a series of sensationally serendipitous stories.
Anyone for a sauna? A country we usually associate with safe cars and sensible people has blasted on to the front pages of newspapers in almost every country in the world, following a series of sensationally serendipitous stories.
On Saturday, the first suicide bombing in the history of Sweden claimed the life of the Iraqi-born Swedish bomber and sent two seriously wounded people to hospital. A car exploded in the middle of a busy shopping street causing people to run away screaming.
The incident has shocked society in a country that has not experienced a terrorist act in decades. Swedish authorities are throwing massive resources at prosecuting a man accused of “surprise sex” and steadfastly denying that their bizarre case has anything whatsoever to do with the fact that this same man is burying the United States in mountains of embarrassment.
The prosecutor insists on going ahead with extradition proceedings, even though the case has already been thrown out twice and both women, who have laid charges, accept that they had consensual sex with the accused, Julian Assange – who just happens to be editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, controversial website that leaked secret US embassy cables, allegedly threatening national security and US economic interests.
While the extradition process moves on, the English legal system has decided not to let Assange out on bail – but the same system did grant bail for another man held for extradition to South Africa, to possibly face murder charges following the death of his wife. Coincidentally, Anni Dewani, the woman murdered in a botched hijacking in Cape Town last month, was a Swedish citizen.
The case made headlines in the United Kingdom and other European countries, because the wealthy Dewani couple had been on honeymoon in South Africa, and certain sources have alleged that the victim’s husband, Shrien Dewani, might have played a role in arranging her death. What did the Swedes do to deserve this enormous amount of unwanted attention?
