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ISIS recruiter runs two schools in Sweden and will open a third next year
As it happens, ISIS recruiter operates a free school in Sweden. Years ago the thought of it would have been scandalous. Today’s Sweden, it will likely barely raise an eyebrow.
Sweden’s Security Police, SÄPO, report that the identified activities of the president of the Science School in Gothenburg reveal the reason Sweden’s second-largest city produces the largest number of jihadists, producing...
Swedish Security Chief Says Terror Threat Is ‘New Normal’
The Director-General of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) has confessed that terrorism is now the “new normal” in his country.
Anders Thornberg told the BBC that, while the Scandinavian country only had to monitor around 200 extremists a few years ago, it now has at least 3,000 to contend with — no small task for a country of just 10 million people, where the authorities are already unable...
Thousands of violent terrorists in Sweden: security police
The number of militant extremists living in Sweden has soared from a couple of hundreds a few years ago to thousands today, the security police Säpo believes.
“We have never seen anything like it before,” said Säpo chief Anders Thornberg in an interview with Swedish news agency TT.
The vast majority of the extremists support violent Islamist ideologies, according to Säpo, whose security...
Swedish police: Islamic terrorism is key threat
Islamic terrorism remains the greatest threat to Sweden, according to Anders Danielsson, head of Sweden’s Security Service (Säpo).
Speaking at a seminar on Monday on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks on the US on September 11th 2001, Danielsson said that the strength of al-Qaeda had been greatly weakened in recent years.
The threat from al-Qaeda could be complicated...