Friday, February 29, 2008

Six Terror Suspects Arrested In Scandinavia

Source Article HERE.

From 'Euro News': A total of six people have been taken into police custody in Norway and Sweden on terrorism- related charges. Norwegian security services arrested three men at different addresses in Oslo on Thursday on suspicion of planning acts of terror and financing terrorism. A Norwegian Police Security Service spokesperson said a terror-paragraph in the law makes it a crime to finance acts of terror, either foreign or domestic. In this case it's foreign, she said. The three men, all of Somali origin, are suspected of collecting and transferring money to a terrorist group in Somalia.

In a coordinated move with authorities in Oslo, Swedish police arrested another three men in Stockholm. They have Swedish citizenship but come originally from Somalia. They are suspected of financing acts of terror by the Somali opposition group Al-Shabab, the Somalian Islamists' military wing. Earlier this month the Swedish government presented for the first time a "national strategy" aimed at combatting the threat of terrorism.

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