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Iran named by Finland as foreign intelligence threat
Finland officially named Iran as a state actively conducting espionage operations within its borders, a designation previously reserved only for Russia and China. The regime in Tehran has accelerated terror plots and intelligence operations across the US, Europe, and Israel.
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Sweden
Jewish groups in Stockholm, Malmo, and Gothenburg reported an increase in threats to them following last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris. Two men, a woman, and a youth have been arrested for plotting and carrying out a bombing in Malmo on Christmas Eve.
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Sweden
Lars Viks, a Swedish cartoonist who has been targeted for death by Islamist extremists, including al Qaeda, urged the media to avoid succumbing to self-censorship, which he said has led to the current situation “in which satirical pictures with motifs related to Islam are already censored in most media.” Swedish citizen and nightclub owner Paul Mardirossian was released from US prison for good behavior, after pleading guilty in 2012 to conspiring to supply weapons to Colombian guerrilla terrorists in exchange for cocaine.
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Sweden
A building in Malmo was bombed with plastic explosives for the second time in two days; police have no suspects. There have been a series of bombings in Malmo recently, including two targeting a justice center that also housed a police station.
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Sweden
Swedish police: Bomb attacks in Malmö may be due to dispute
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Sweden
A bomb damaged a justice center in Malmo last night; the facility was also bombed in February. The head of Sweden’s security service estimated that up to 300 Swedes have left the country to fight for the Islamic State. The national antiterrorism coordinator warned that girls are being trafficked to the Middle East and southern Asia. A nonprofit organization run by defected Islamist fighters claimed to have stopped three teenagers from traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State last month.
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Sweden
After a recent defector from the Islamic State claimed that the group has sleeper cells waiting for instruction in European countries, including Sweden, the state security service Säpo said it is concerned and is exchanging information on the group with other countries. Three Swedish fighters with the Islamic State, all of Somali origin, were killed in Syria on Nov. 9; about six or seven Swedes are said to leave Sweden for Syria every week. The Islamic Association of Sweden said it is “shocked” that the United Arab Emirates has labeled it a terrorist organization.
