Eldritch
12-13-2010, 03:39 AM
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The Finnish Security Police SUPO is following investigations into Saturday evening’s bomb attack in the centre of Stockholm.
SUPO's Security Division Chief, Kari Harju, says that, at present, there are no indications of any links to Finland regarding the incident. He said it was not necessary to raise the terror alert level in response to the bombing in the Swedish capital.
Harju added the threat level would be kept as normal because there were no grounds to believe a terrorist attack was imminent in Finland.
Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi has condemned the attack in Sweden. In a YLE interview, she reiterated, however, the view of the Security Police that Finland did not face the danger of a similar attack on the basis of current knowledge.
Finland's Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb has described the Stockholm bombing as very worrying and serious because the act was probably a terror attack. However, he said the incident was of little significance to Finland. He did not comment on the motive for the attack neither on a possible link with Afghanistan.
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Saturday night’s blasts killed one person and wounded two. Before the explosions, the Swedish news agency TT received a threatening letter about Sweden's military presence in Afghanistan and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad drawn several years ago by a Swedish cartoonist.
A senior Swedish security police official told a news conference on Sunday the blasts were being treated as "terror crimes" and police had established good leads.
In other words, we aren't doing anything, because there's nothing to do. Can't happen here. :rolleyes:
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Imam Anas Hajjar of The Islamic Society of Finland says Muslims living in Finland are shocked by the attack in Sweden. He stresses that such actions had nothing in common with the Islamic faith.
Hajjar added Islam condemns acts of injustice and violence made against civilians and innocents.
He was shocked that the alleged perpetrator of the bombing had claimed to be acting in the name of Islam.
“Islamaphobic acts have been on the rise recently and I fear that they could increase. The Muslim majority has nothing to do with such acts, but unfortunately we pay a cost for them,” says Ajar.
He ensured that violent, militant groups did not exist in Finland.
Can't happen here, nothing to do worry about, etc ... :rolleyes:
And of course Ananashuijari's main concern is the possibility of increased "islamophobia". Who would have thought?
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However, perhaps the most telling one is foreign minister Alexander Stubb's Twitter post:
You never expect something like that to happen.
... which he later deleted.
Of course this guy can't be expected to know what might happen right next door to us. After all, he's only the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
:coffee:
The Finnish Security Police SUPO is following investigations into Saturday evening’s bomb attack in the centre of Stockholm.
SUPO's Security Division Chief, Kari Harju, says that, at present, there are no indications of any links to Finland regarding the incident. He said it was not necessary to raise the terror alert level in response to the bombing in the Swedish capital.
Harju added the threat level would be kept as normal because there were no grounds to believe a terrorist attack was imminent in Finland.
Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi has condemned the attack in Sweden. In a YLE interview, she reiterated, however, the view of the Security Police that Finland did not face the danger of a similar attack on the basis of current knowledge.
Finland's Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb has described the Stockholm bombing as very worrying and serious because the act was probably a terror attack. However, he said the incident was of little significance to Finland. He did not comment on the motive for the attack neither on a possible link with Afghanistan.
...
Saturday night’s blasts killed one person and wounded two. Before the explosions, the Swedish news agency TT received a threatening letter about Sweden's military presence in Afghanistan and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad drawn several years ago by a Swedish cartoonist.
A senior Swedish security police official told a news conference on Sunday the blasts were being treated as "terror crimes" and police had established good leads.
In other words, we aren't doing anything, because there's nothing to do. Can't happen here. :rolleyes:
http://yle.fi/ecepic/archive/00370/imaami_Anas_Hajjar_370635b.jpg
Imam Anas Hajjar of The Islamic Society of Finland says Muslims living in Finland are shocked by the attack in Sweden. He stresses that such actions had nothing in common with the Islamic faith.
Hajjar added Islam condemns acts of injustice and violence made against civilians and innocents.
He was shocked that the alleged perpetrator of the bombing had claimed to be acting in the name of Islam.
“Islamaphobic acts have been on the rise recently and I fear that they could increase. The Muslim majority has nothing to do with such acts, but unfortunately we pay a cost for them,” says Ajar.
He ensured that violent, militant groups did not exist in Finland.
Can't happen here, nothing to do worry about, etc ... :rolleyes:
And of course Ananashuijari's main concern is the possibility of increased "islamophobia". Who would have thought?
*** *** ***
However, perhaps the most telling one is foreign minister Alexander Stubb's Twitter post:
You never expect something like that to happen.
... which he later deleted.
Of course this guy can't be expected to know what might happen right next door to us. After all, he's only the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
:coffee: