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Sweden Busts 4 in Suspected Terror Plot

But terror alert level not raised; officials tight-lipped

By the Associated Press

Posted Sep 11, 2011 10:29 AM CDT

(AP) – Swedish police arrested four people on suspicion of preparing a terror attack and evacuated an arts center in Sweden's second largest city on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, officials said today. The four were arrested in Goteborg, said a Swedish police spokeswoman, who wouldn't say whether they were linked to the 10-year anniversary of 9/11. Sweden's terror alert wasn't raised from its current "elevated" status.

"Our assessment is that there is no reason for public concern at the moment," she said. Police in Goteborg said they had evacuated the Roda Sten arts center, located beneath the city's landmark half-mile Alvsborg bridge, due to a threat deemed to pose "serious danger for life, health, or substantial damage of property." The Alvsborg bridge runs over Goteborg's harbor to connect the mainland with the island of Hisingen. The six-lane passage is a vital link from the Norwegian capital Oslo to southern Sweden.

The Roda Stens art exhibition center is seen under the Alvsborgsbron bridge in Gothenburg, Sweden, Sunday morning, Sept. 11, 2011. Four have been arrested on suspicion of preparing a terror attack.
The Roda Stens art exhibition center is seen under the Alvsborgsbron bridge in Gothenburg, Sweden, Sunday morning, Sept. 11, 2011. Four have been arrested on suspicion of preparing a terror attack.   (Adam Ihse)
The Roda Stens art exhibition center is seen under the Alvsborgsbron bridge in Gothenburg, Sweden, Sunday morning, Sept. 11, 2011. Four people have been arrested in the city on suspicion of preparing a terror attack, the country's security police said Sunday. Police in Gothenburg said in a statement they had...
The Roda Stens art exhibition center is seen under the Alvsborgsbron bridge in Gothenburg, Sweden, Sunday morning, Sept. 11, 2011. Four people have been arrested in the city on suspicion of preparing...   (Adam Ihse)
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brawne
Sep 11, 2011 7:45 PM CDT
What can you say about Sweden--they make complicated furniture?  Norway--when the Nazis invaded and wanted all the Jews to wear a yellow star, so they could round them up the way every other country let them round them up--France, I'm talking to your Vichy ass--the Norwegians, every fucking one of them, wore a yellow star--from the king all the way down.  We have a ton of Norwegian immigrants and they worked their ass off to build this country along with the rest of us.  The Swedes--they are the asshole, conservative equivalent of the American South.  Why their nuts are all right wing extremists and have been for years and years.  They fucked over Tiger Woods, too.
JOHNSPEAKS
Sep 11, 2011 5:22 PM CDT
We hope and pray to -God- of the old testament that we do not offend any of the pansy liberals or pansy gays or pansy moderators? If -Sweden- had real men for citizens unlike -Norway- who only has pansy liberal citizens, -You- would not have armed rebellion by heroic citizens like in -Norway-???
The_Truth
Sep 11, 2011 4:36 PM CDT
In other words they werent muslim.

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