Sweden is widely recognized
Sweden is widely recognized as a prime example of a social democracy, whose foreign policy a strict neutrality inhaled course. The reality was less positive bias to be done. The following article shows that the Swedish legislation and justice even when the counter terrorist threats increasingly dependent on observance of constitutional principles and practices vary. The problem of terrorists Act of 2003 can not least due to illustrate that the government itself punishable. In Europe there is a race for tougher measures against suspected terrorists. Human Rights Watch reacted violently to this erosion of human rights, not least against the recent proposal by the Blair government which requires that suspected terrorists in secret court proceedings are brought and no insight into the evidence. Swedish Justice Minister Thomas Bodstro is also good in the race with his proposal on the mandatory storage of all Internet and mobile communications of all residents. His laws announced by the military to participate in the fight against terrorists by the opposition only with a sigh of regret because the proposal does not come from them. Still, there was less discussion about the terrorist laws, the Justice Minister flinker our already introduced or adapted. Early in the morning of the 19th April 2004, the National Task Force four suspected terrorists in their homes in Sweden. In one of the apartments stormed the police through the windows into the kitchen and the bedroom of the children, a triple and a Zehnjariger woke between glass and estuaries of machine guns. The four were in solitary confinement with the media and visiting ban. The allegations were for the public secret. Interrogations were according to our information from the American, British and German secret service, even if Sao (Swedish security police, NB trams.) only the presence of the German admits. After half a year recognized the Higher Regional Court for a detention review date the evidence against one of the four not. Then delivered Sao “surplus information” of a telephone surveillance - only allowed in case of suspicion of very serious crimes - to the health insurance, so at least for the man accused of illegal work could be. When the Higher Regional Court because of another suspect freilieblack of evidence, he was instead on direct instruction from Bodstro, Sao arrested and expelled to Iraq, even if the implementation of the expulsion to be given to him because the death penalty. An addendum to the Act of 2003 on a special immigration control allows the government namely, a person who is being detained by the terrorist acts to be feared. The hearing will take place before the district court, but Sao needs no evidence and the court does not say his mind and almost no decision to make government. The district court clerk is reduced. The Swedish practice very reminiscent of the above-mentioned controversial British proposal - only a hard kritisierter proposal. After a year, the negotiation for the two remaining before the Stockholm District Court. They were following the law on the punishment for terrorist acts accused on 1 July 2003 came into force. With this law leads Sweden a framework decision by the EU and defines terrorist acts such as murder, kidnapping, sabotage, distribution of toxic or infectious agents various types of weapons crimes, threats and others, was “a State or an intergovernmental organization can pose a serious threat” and intentionally horrors to distribute or to the authorities or decisions necessary political, economic or social structures to damage. The two suspects are Iraqi Kurds, 25 and 29 years old, residing in Sweden, according to prosecutors and the preparation of terrorist acts guilty by money for the network of Iraqi-Kurdish Ansar al-Islam or conveys collected. The verdict is in large part from a unit of the depiction of the Prosecutor of militant Islamism in recent decades. Here is daonisierendem with a broad brush stroke, verwickeltes well as holstering konspiratives image of a “worldwide Islamist-motivated terrorism” painted. All known forces such as Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Talibans, the Muslim Brotherhood, Ansar al-Islam, etc. are used as a uniform and firmly zusammengeschweibe movement. Nevertheless, it is the hard court, the objective of this movement to clarify. One states that “an armed struggle against the infidels generally aspire to, then again, they wanted in the affected areas,” an Islamist state “build. The fact that the U.S. occupation of Iraq, in which judgment is not mentioned, so the fight against “the coalition forces and their allies” explained that this “as enemies of the right Islamic path.” This description of the situation in Iraq and the historical background, the Stockholm district court as “correct”, because it was based on “open source” is based, as contributions in the broadcast “News” of the Swedish television and CNN clarified. The evidence is based mainly on abgehote phone conversations. The Neunundzwanzigjarige is imam in a mosque and the Swedish Fufundzwanzigjarige works inter alia with hawala, a kind of international money transfers, in large parts of Asia and Africa practice. Both have an extensive network of contacts with many different kinds sensitive compounds. In their discussions they often use nicknames for people and sometimes when it is necessary, code words for different things. An important part of the assessment by the court consists of the secret interrogations Sao a secret agent, agent “RPS2103″ by the court, whose statements are secret, except for a chart with a lot of heads, as members of Ansar al-Islam means , with lines connecting to the respective defendants. The scheme can convince everyone - until it reads in its judgment that solid lines “confirmed” contacts mean, “but where the possibility is not completely exclude that the information may be wrong” and that dotted lines “unconfirmed” contacts represent , “Which does not mean that they did not take place.” The Fufundzwanzigjarige has confessed that he had a portion of the money to Ansar al-Islam has sent but that for social and humanitarian purposes. The Neunundzwanzigjarige denies participation. The final judgment of the court is based primarily on the alleged contacts and vague comments about the attack in Arbil on 1 February 2004. In two attacks against party offices of the PUK and the KDP over 100 people were killed. An organization called Ansar al-Sunna, the district court as being identical with Ansar al-Islam views, has become really know what could be explained by that Islamist Kurds believe that the PUK and the KDP to the U.S. - led occupying forces sold them. The district court Admittedly, that the accused not to ascribe this act, but nevertheless believes that the circumstances “bribing”. The district court also relies on the fact that Ansar al-Islam on the terrorist lists of UN and EU. The UN Security Council referred to American security interests, as in 1999, he decided to Resolution 1267, a list of Islamist individuals and organizations themselves whose assets should be frozen and no support. The EU has this list automatically, and it is constantly updated additions or deletions. The one day it is in order, a certain organization to support the next day, it is a Terrortat. In this way were the three Somalia Sweden their accounts blocked and their future prospects destroyed - without judicial review. The grundgesetzlich protected freedom of association is - like many other freedoms in this time - on the edge of a precipice. The Fufundzwanzigjarige was sentenced to six years in prison and Neunundzwanzigjarige to seven years. Both will be forever in Iraq. The Neunundzwanzigjarige has a Swedish wife and two children in Sweden, which normally excludes an expulsion, but the crime is so difficult, says the district court - and he also has not learned Swedish and “appears to be otherwise not in the Swedish society to have “. We believe it is not unlikely that the defendant money to Ansar al-Islam has transferred, for the militant actions should be used - but that’s not proven beyond any doubt, as law and legal guarantee. Another problem is that a Swedish court his conclusions on assumptions based on foreign relations, which even the most experienced experts and journalists because of the bad news situation completely unclear, or simply on the world image of the United States.
The individual responsibility for the attack, which is after the judgment order in Arbil, is controversial. There is a culture that is responsible for an attempt to explain that you are not guilty, recently we have seen how different organizations take responsibility for the Springing in Sharm El-Sheik over. The Ansar al-Islam is the responsibility of Arbil has, for example, the international law professor and longtime expert in the Foreign Ministry not impressed with the firm conviction is that “other forces behind the assassination,” and refers to Turkish interests. (Amnesty Press, 2 / 04). The really Besorgniserregende is that the Swedish judicial system, with the assistance of an eager Justice Minister, the basic conflicts completely ignored. The internationally war of aggression against Iraq and subsequent occupation exist in the judgment. The defendants tried again and again the nature of the conflict to explain. In its judgment, that the Fufundzwanzigjarige reported that “he was glad that Saddam was removed. The soldiers of the U.S. operation but a terrorist regime, against which the nation has the right to defend himself. “He has relatives who attacks by American aircraft were killed. He speaks of money that is collected in mosques and to Chechnya, Palestine, Iraq and Kurdistan is - all areas in which the Muslim population terrorized by foreign powers. He says that usually the money “to children and other dependants, but that he also said that it is also for the fight against the United States. On the other hand, he has nothing. If the reason is that he was deprived of his freedom, he was pleased. ” The Neunundzwanzigjarige its part says that after the verdict that “the Kurds have a right to self-government and that the U.S. should leave Iraq. The U.S. has not succeeded in other countries to convince that in the Iraq issue has done the right thing. It is terrorism. ” But the court refuses to consider this perspective in his assessment. It makes no difference between terrorism, war and resistance against an occupying power. The court makes observations of the type the U.S.-led invasion and the hunt for suspected terrorists, the consequences, “it is not a reflection on the context of the causes. All people who imagine, the conflict in Iraq was a simple conflict between democracy and terror, between Bush and Saddam, between the West and Islam, etc., should that judgment on two men read at the same time the Kurdish nationalists, avowed Muslims , Iraqi patriots, Saddam Hasser, resistance fighters against an occupying power and possibly sympathize with a network, as the Iran-friendly, but also as panislamisch views. What the Swedish district court actually makes, is that there is the question is whether a people by a foreign power occupied, looted and murdered, has the right to resist. We believe that it is self-evidently right, in principle, resistance against an aggressor to afford, even if one for each specific event must ask whether it is this as a legitimate resistance or not. Mostly, we remain response from the lack of information guilty. Much indicates that the attack in Arbil not an example of legitimate resistance, but a matter of secondary importance, as long as the court neither one of the two defendants still Ansar al-Islam is a proof of participation. The court admits that it may not be the first to the second fresh to say. The Swedish government was all the time against the right to resistance. Except in the rhetoric in the very first war period, but it has never acted against the war and later the U.S. fully supports action. Through legislation and direct intervention has also the Swedish legal system encouraged in the interests of major powers to work. If Swedish courts now be forced to individual attacks to take a position, it is only an example of how the legal certainty being repealed. The problem with the terrorists laws of 2003, if nothing else, so be illustrated that the government itself can make anklagbar. Sweden exported (also in opposition to arms export laws) weapons to Britain and the United States. We have also through the training of police officers in the service of the occupation forces helped and the whole diplomatic legitimacy. Sweden has, in principle, the criteria for aid to terrorist acts fulfilled because the U.S.-led attack by murder, sabotage, destruction, etc. damaging a state difficult by seeking to ensure the basic structures to destroy. What you may actually did want to build does not matter - this is not the terrorist laws. The verdict - the first under the new terrorism legislation - has been appealed and will take place on 22 August before the Svea hovrätt (Higher Regional Court for the Middle Sweden, NB transl.) negotiation. Reconstruction must be a Swedish position on the court, what happens in Iraq, and probably will again ignore the question of what terrorism is and what resistance in a country that is occupied and in chaos there - but where the black and white worldview of the U.S. characterizes the entire indictment. In the whole of Europe will continue on the tough new projects discussed which violate human rights, but for the most part already. In Sweden the Einvernehmlichkeit and Thomas Bodstro, however, is icy silence.
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