For those who continue to hold the notion that, the war on ‘Islamist Extremism’ is neither a European nor a Nordic concern, should be alarmed by this latest development. The influence of Middle-Eastern Islamic religious leaders in Sweden, cannot be under estimated. KGS59
“The Swedish teenager being held in Sarajevo on suspicion of terrorist offences visited the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to the British newspaper The Times. In an investigation into al-Zarqawi, one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, the paper stated that “there are signs that al-Zarqawi wants to mobilise cells in Europe”.