Sweden reveals home-grown terror threat

More than 20 Islamic extremists are known to have travelled from Sweden to the Middle East to attend terrorist training camps, according to a report issued by the country’s security service Säpo in December 2010, just days after Stockholm was hit by a suicide bomb attack.

The study, commissioned before the explosions on the 11 December 2010, estimated there are about 200 radicalised Muslims in Sweden, most of them connected with each other through a loose network committed to supporting violent extremism.

ESO: Background information: Swedes call for calm after bombs / Stockholm came close to bomb carnage http://www.europeansources.info/record/swedes-call-for-calm-after-bombs-stockholm-came-close-to-bomb-carnage/

Website: Swedish Security Service (Säpo) http://www.sakerhetspolisen.se/english/english.4.3b063add1101207dd46800058538.html

Säpo: Press Release, 15.12.10: Report on violence-promoting Islamist extremism presented to Government http://www.sakerhetspolisen.se/english/english/publications/newsarchives/nyhetsarkiv/reportonviolencepromotingislamistextremismpresentedtogovernment.5.34ffc68f1235b740c0680005463.html

The Local.se, 15.12.10: Islamic extremism 'a threat' to Sweden: Säpo http://www.thelocal.se/30862/20101215/

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