Re: Sharon : Terrorist attack/ all too reminiscent of the attacks in the U.S.

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Reb, I do so hope that Sweden can be made safe; alas, this is a world-wide threatto most every nation, and I am not sure that the U.S.'s having gone into Iraq afterthe first Gulf War has improved the situation much.Highest hopes for your country and your people, as well as for you and ,nTo: MSersLife Sent: Tue, December 14, 2010 1:58:41 AMSubject: Re: Sharon : Terrorist attack

Only that they seem to have identified the bomber now (with 98% certainty, or as certain as you can be before any formal identification has been made, as they say). He's Iraqi born, lived in Sweden for most of the 1990's, but relocated to the UK in 2001. It seems his fellow Muslims in Luton, Britain had reacted on what they felt was violent and extremist views that he held, and he had left the Mosque there due to being confronted over it. But he has not before been known by either British or Swedish authorities as a potential troublemaker/terrorist. That and that he apparently had an almost unreal case of bad luck (or the Stockholm shoppers had an almost unreal case of good luck, if you will). Not only did only one of the bombs he was

carrying go off, it is also believed that it did go off prematurely. That he was on his way to a more crowded place than the one where the bomb did go off (he was very close to many crowded places and shops, but was in a small street, kind of an alleyway, off the main shopping street, when the bomb exploded). The BBC security correspondent calls it Sweden's "lucky escape" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11986037 ). Remains to be found out whether he was acting alone or part of a bigger network. I think that's where the assistance from the FBI will be the most helpful. It's where they have a lot of expertise, and Swedish police very little. I've been looking at the photos of the blasts on the BBC site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11978772 ), and otherwhere. And it's kind of eerie, and incredibly unreal, to look at so very familiar streets and places being in the midst of flames and shrapnel etc. It's like... something is seriously wrong with this picture. Feels like it has been manipulated somehow. I know it hasn't. But I know those streets and houses, and I know flames and explosions too, and it's like, in my mind, they could only be in the same photo if they have been photoshopped together. Those two things don't belong together. That's one of the parts of Stockholm I know better than my own living room, almost, and one of those places where I learned to find the way before I knew the street names, as

a small kid. You know, the kind of places where it's your feet and your inner child, somehow, that finds the way when you are there, not maps, not signs etc. Well...That's the world we live in nowadays, I suppose. love/Reb>> How true. The bomber made his choice and he made the choice for all the > innocents around him, as well. > > > Anything new on all of this today?> > love> > > Sharon> This email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and > grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be > considered flaws or defects.