2010-05-05 Ruotsi: "Ruotsalaisia" värvätty somalian terroristijärjestöön

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Ruotsin turvallisuuspoliisi (SÄPO) pelkää, että somalialainen terrorijärjestö Al-Shabab on värvännyt ainakin 20 nuorta ruotsista somaliaan.

Göteborg on todettu useiden lähteide mukaan Ruotsin suurimmaksi rekrytointi keskukseksi. Lisäksi Sveska Dagbladenin mukaan Ruotsi toimii ryhmän varojenhankinta keskuksena. Tilanne ei ole uhkaava vain Somalialle vaan myös Ruotsin turvallisuus on vaarassa.

Kurt Westergaardin murhaa yrittänyt mies harjoitti rekrytointia Göteborgin moskeijassa, mutta moskeijan puhemiehen mukaan al-shababin kannattajia ei toimi moskeijassa.

Ruotsin al-Shabab rekrytoidut alkavat myös olemaan vaaraksi naapurimaille. mm. Tanskan kansapuolueen johtajaa uhkaillut mies oli somalijärjestöön rekrtytoituja.

YK:n Afrikansarveen erikoistunut ryhmä on todennut Ruotsin olevan rekrytointien ja rahoituksen keskus.

Säpon mukaan Ruotsissa on 1 500 henkilö joita voisi kutsua HC-islamisteiksi joista n. 100 - 200 voi sotkeutua väkivaltaisuuksiin,

Göteborg on myös suurimman Al-Shabab on-line yhteisön alqimmah.net kotipaikka.

Sveska Dagbladetin toimittaja Per Gudmundson mukaan Ruotsi ei ole hyvä integroimaan somaleja toisin kuin Britannia tai USA.

http://www.thelocal.se/26478/20100505/

Swedes recruited by Somali terror group

An al-Qaeda-linked extremist group in Somalia has recruited more than 20 young people from Sweden to fight in the war-torn African country, the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) fears

Somali Islamic insurgency group Harakat al-Shabab Mujahideen ("Movement of Warrior Youth"), better known as Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, is thought to have recruited dozens of Swedish youth to engage in terrorist acts, according to Göteborgs-Tidningen.

Gothenburg was identified by several sources as the largest recruitment base in the country, the report said. Sweden is also a fundraising hub for the group, according to Svenska Dagbladet editorial writer Per Gudmundson, who has written extensively about the issue.

"I think it's a very serious threat because it's not only a threat to Somalis in Somalia, it's also a threat to Swedish security," Gudmundson told The Local.

"People who go through wars and conflicts in war zones come back as trained operatives. We've had in Sweden people who've been trained in Afghanistan and come back as seasoned veterans. They are regarded with high esteem in jihadist terms and can motivate young people to fight. Also, when it comes to Swedish security, we are not immune to this. The Mohammed caricatures have shown places in northern Europe can be targets."

At a mosque - a converted food hall - in Gothenburg's Gamlestan quarter, a Danish-Somali man who tried to assassinate Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist who drew the controversial Mohammed cartoon published in Jyllands-Posten, tried to recruit followers, according to a Danish newspaper.

"There are no supporters of al-Shabab here," mosque spokesman Abdi Fatah Shidane told Göteborgs-Tidningen.

Young men in Sweden are brainwashed, trained and recruited by terrorists on Somali terrorist movement al-Shabab, according to an informant who spoke to the paper. One recruit was arrested in connection with death threats against Danish People's Party leader Pia Kjærsgaard.

According to Säpo, al-Shabab sympathisers across the country are concentrated in big cities and recruit young people here for war and terrorist acts, as well as raising money for the movement.

Inspector Per-Olof Hellqvist of Säpo in Gothenburg confirmed to Göteborgs-Tidningen that young men from the Gothenburg area have traveled to Somalia.

"However, we do not know what they are doing there," he told the paper.

According to Gudmundson, the UN's special group on the Horn of Africa made a report on recruitment and financing that singled out Sweden as a hub for both recruitment and financing.

"The jihadist problem is worse in Denmark, I don't know why, but the Somali hub is bigger in Sweden," he told The Local.

Swedish Integration and Gender Equality Minister Nyamko Sabuni of the Liberal Party recently ordered Säpo to conduct a report on the scale of violence-prone religious radicalism in the country because the numbers are unclear. Gudmundson estimates about 1500 people in Sweden would be labelled Islamists with hardcore tendencies, while about 100 to 200 would possibly engage in violence.

"These are not big figures, not many, but as we sadly know, just a handful is enough," he told The Local. "To many, it's a nationalistic thing. Young males are always prone. They have a different view of life."

About 400,000 to 500,000 people in Sweden have roots in Muslim countries, he said.

"Mainly, Al-Shabab is a Somali phenomenon, but they attract young guys who are sympathetic to the global jihadist movement," Gudmundson told The Local. "However, few want to travel to Somalia. It's the armpit of the world."

As for why Gothenburg is the hub for Al-Shabab in Sweden, Gudmundson believes it is related to Somali clan immigration patterns, which are also evident in other Somali communities across the country.

In addition, Gothenburg is home to Al-Shabab's largest online community, alqimmah.net, which was established by a former Nazi who converted to Islam, with information mostly in Somali as well as Arabic and one sub-forum in English that picks up the newest translations, Gudmundson told The Local.

"Sweden isn't good at integrating Somalis compared to the UK and US," he said.

"We make a better living and it's expensive to hire people in Sweden. Somalis are often not well educated and are not easy to hire. It's very hard for the Somali community to get into the workforce."

Gudmundson added he believes the situation is worsening in Somalia. "I know it sounds silly to say about a country that's gone 18 years without a functional government, but now it's even worse because now, not only does the small weak transitional government fight against one Islamic militia, it has to fight another and they also fight against each other. It's everyone against everyone."

Vivian Tse ([email protected])

[JulianAlexander]

Aivan helv hyvä jos näin on!!

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Studiotoimittaja:
Alkavatko Pohjoismaiden somalit radikalisoitua. Tätä kysytään etenkin Ruotsissa ja Tanskassa. Somalian voitokas islamistinen sissiliike yrittää värvätä väkeä maailmalla, myös Ruotsissa. Tanskaa vavisutti pari viikkoa sitten murhayritys, jonka jäljet johtivat Somaliaan ja al-Qaidaan.
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Toimittaja:
Miten Tukholman maahanmuuttajalähiö Rinkeby tähän liittyy? Täälläkin pelätään al-Shababin lonkeroiden ulottuvan tänne asti. Nuoriso-ohjaaja Khadafi Hussein on niitä harvoja, jotka uskaltavat puhua fundamentalistien tulosta. Hän vahvistaa, että al-Shabab on yrittänyt värvätä Ruotsin somaleja taisteluihin.

Khadafi Hussein, nuoriso-ohjaaja, Rinkeby:
Se on värvännyt 20 nuorta nuorisotaloilta ja monitoimikeskuksista. 20 värvättyä ja heidän opettajansa ovat lähteneet Somaliaan. He ovat sotineet ja heitä on kaatunut Somaliassa.
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Naser Khader, Demokraattiset Muslimit:
Tärkein peruste on se, että tämä [Tanska] on oikeusvaltio. Emme voi noin vain viedä ihmisiltä kansalaisuutta. Ei voi karkottaa ihmisiä, jotka kannattavat terrorijärjestöjä. Karkotettavia olisi satoja.

2010-01-15: OBS/FST: Somalit Pohjoismaissa radikalisoituvat

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Naser Khader, Demokraattiset Muslimit:
Tärkein peruste on se, että tämä [Tanska] on oikeusvaltio. Emme voi noin vain viedä ihmisiltä kansalaisuutta. Ei voi karkottaa ihmisiä, jotka kannattavat terrorijärjestöjä. Karkotettavia olisi satoja.

Tulihan se sieltä kun vähän potkii. Satojatuhansia, koko euroopassa?

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Göteborissa on pidätetty mies epäiltynä terroristi-iskujen suunnittelusta Somaliassa.


http://www.thelocal.se/26716/20100518/

Gothenburg man arrested over Somali terror plot

A man has been arrested in Gothenburg on suspicion of planning terror attacks in Somalia, the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) has said.

The man, a Swedish citizen, was arrested on Tuesday morning in the Gothenburg area, Göteborgs Posten reports. A warrant for his arrest had been issued some time ago, according to police.

He was originally arrested on suspicion of 'crimes against national security', but police later said he was now being held pn suspicion of 'conspiracy to commit acts of terror'.

Police must either charge or release the man by Friday.

Prosecutors were on Tuesday giving little information about the man or the nature of the accusations against him. Agneta Hilding Qvarnström, at the national prosecutors' office for security cases in Stockholm, told Göteborgs Posten:

"The identity is classified, the circumstances are classified, everything is classified."

The Security Service warned recently that Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-linked extremist group in Somalia, had recruited more than 20 young people from the Gothenburg area to fight in the war-torn country. It is not known whether the latest arrest is linked directly to the warning.

TT/The Local ([email protected]/08 656 6518)

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http://www.thelocal.se/26788/20100521/

Somalia terror suspect remanded

A 23-year old man suspected of planning terror attacks in Somalia has been remanded in custody by Gothenburg District Court.

The man, who is of Somali origin, is charged with conspiracy to commit acts of terror.

The man's mother told Göteborgs-Posten that her son had been in Somalia for about a year, together with his wife and their young child. He was arrested on Tuesday and has been held in custody since then.

Sweden's security police, Säpo, revealed several months ago that around 10 people from Sweden were believed to be at terrorist training camps in Somalia, or were otherwise involved in terrorism in the war-torn African country. 'A handful' of Swedish passport holders had also been found dead following battles in the country.

Most of the Swedes involved in Somali terrorist activities are believed to have been members of al-Shabab, an organization with links to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. A recruitment film called 'At your Service, Osama,' was released in Kenya last year and showed images from battles in Mogadishu.

TT/The Local ([email protected]/08 656 6518)

[Jaakko P.]

Aivan helv hyvä jos näin on!!

Fundikset lähtivät toteuttamaan itseään kotiinsa. Jokainen lähtijä on voitto Ruotsille. Harmi vain että sinne uppoaa myös kahmalokaupalla Ruotsin verorahaa, joten koko kansalla on vähän verta käsissään.