Anna Lindh was attacked while shopping in the ladies' department at the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in central Stockholm on 11th September 2003. She was stabbed in the chest, stomach and arms and died later that day. Lindh was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs but at the time she was not being protected by bodyguards from the Swedish Security Service.

On September 24, Mijailo Mijailović was arrested and charged with her murder. Two days later it was announced that the DNA-profile of Mijailović matched that of hairs found on the baseball cap, left at or near the scene of the crime. He also resembled the man filmed in the store where Lindh was attacked. Mijailović admitted to the crime and was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment.

Mijailo Mijailović might be guilty of this crime although no one has been able to suggest a good reason for the assassination. My main concern is over what has happened since Lindh's death.

Lindh was an extremely popular member of the Social Democratic government and was fully expected to become the next prime minister, replacing the lacklustre Goran Persson. The assassination stopped that happening.

The month after Lindh's death, Fredrik Reinfeldt, became the leader of the so-called "Moderate Party". On the surface the Moderate Party policies seemed little different from that of the Social Democrats that had moved to the right under Persson. However, the feeling was that Persson was outdated and Reinfelt, who was only 38 when he became leader, was the future.

Reinfeldt became prime minister following the large swing against Persson and the Social Democratic Party in the September 2006 general elections.

Since gaining power Reinfeldt has introduced radical welfare reform. Benefits have been cut and so have income-tax. The wealth-tax was abolished. National insurance contributions have been raised forcing lower-paid workers out of the system.

A large section of the health service has been contracted out to the private sector. Some state-owned industries have been sold off. Museums that have always been free now charge high entry fees.

Most disturbing is that the government has allowed anyone to set up schools and to claim the state’s per capita allowance for pupils. These schools have been allowed to adopt restrictive academic admissions criteria. This has resulted in segregated faith and class schools.

Reinfeldt’s government is extremely unpopular and is almost certain to be removed at the next election. However, the damage has been done. Like Margaret Thatcher, he has dismantled the country’s welfare state. Once this happens, it is very difficult to reinstate.

The great irony is that David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party in the UK, is promising to introduce Reinfeldt’s reforms when he becomes prime minister.

Some entity seems determined to keep Palmes and Lindhs (and their party) out of power. Sweden has such a progressive image - but even during WW2 had a large pro-fascist group in the Oligarchy. You are correct there seems to be no motive of the likely attacker. H

might have been a mind-control assassin or well paid for the mission. While there are real non-conspiratorial attacks on people, those who ignore repeating patterns are only playing osterich for fear of what they might see connecting the dots.

One theory [not 100% in sync with mine] that has many interesting points to it:

Unsolved Palme Assassination Led To Murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh


by Trowbridge H. Ford, Ph. D. (Columbia, 1967)

Reporting the news is inherently a speculative business. Whether one is reporting every day facts of life, social events, economic conditions, sports, or politics, recording what apparently happened can always go wrong because of some elementary oversight, incorrect information, uncertain witnesses, unreliable sources, and production failure. Still, reporters and editors have to go with whatever they come up with, even if it depends upon a single, unknown source because to wait to make sure may mean that there is no story at all. Usually, it never comes to this, as most events are fairly straightforward, and if any errors occur, they can be easily corrected. If more coercive steps are required, most states have institutions, and procedures for obliging the offending publication to make a correction or acknowledge a serious error of judgment.

Where serious problems arise is when the media is required to provide some explanation of a most complicated process or event, and it gets it wrong, especially because of honest mistakes, and/or deliberate deception by organs, especially of the state, it is dependent upon for basic accounts. The media, despite its claims of independence, and interest in muck-raking, works on the assumption that the state is the best source of information, and truth. Then more erroneous input can just compound the problem, leading to media exhaustion about the subject - what ultimately leads to a breeding ground of so-called conspiracy theorists, especially if the controversy concerns a serious political matter.

In no case in recent political history are these concerns more in evidence than in the public understanding of the assassination of statsminister Olof Palme on February 28, 1986, an unexplained murder despite two unsuccessful attempts to convict Christer Pettersson of the crime. These prosecutions were resorted to after the pursuit of all kinds of other suspects -Victor Gunnarsson, the Kurdish Workers Party, South Africa's secret intelligence service (BOSS), the Iranians, and the Iraqis - had led nowhere. These leads were generally supplied by the press which was under constant pressure to come up with an explanation of the country's greatest tragedy of recent times.

The reason why Palme's assassination has not been solved is because the Swedish security service (Sapö) apparently has refused to acknowledge to investigators that it unwittingly exposed the statsminister to assassination by asking London to provide secret reassessments of his bodyguard protection - what KMS, a private security team, headed by an Operations Officer of Britain's 14 Intelligence Company in Northern Ireland, took advantage of on the night in question. The assassination, it seems, was arranged by hardliners in London, Washington, and Tel Aviv who wanted to put the Cold War back on an East-West plane (Operation Tree), terminate it without without nuclear war (Operation Armageddon), and prevent Saddam Hussein's Iraq from winning his war with Iran.

While Britain would supply the assassin, and doctored intelligence to bolster Washington's claims that Moscow had arranged the murder, and America itself would provide the attack submarines and naval task forces to destroy Soviet military capability around the naval base at Murmansk on the USSR's Kola Peninsula, Israel was willing to cough up the Mossad's Jonathan Pollard as a Soviet spy to falsely reassure Moscow that it had all the satellite and signal intelligence it needed to protect itself against a first strike from the West. Actually, Washington believed that Pollard's information would prove useless in the face of what the new MAGNUM satellites, a ship container full of electronic sensors transported across the USSR by rail, and taps on the main telephone cable in Moscow and the underwater cable in the Barents Sea would provide.

Shamir's government would receive in return the green light for more shipments of vital arms, especially missiles, to Teheran by Oliver North's Consortium, what Palme had made more essential by stopping through Sweden the transshipment of 80 HAWK missiles on November 17, 1985. In early December, former Mossad DG David Kimche resigned from The Consortium because its operations were becoming too dangerous, thanks to the action of KMS's head, former SAS Major David Walker, and Mossad contact Miles Copeland, only to be replaced by Amiram Nir, Shimon Peres's gung-ho adviser on terrorism.

While Palme's assassination went off as planned, plans to blame it on Moscow failed because of the additional spying by the Agency's Aldrich "Rick" Ames and the Bureau's Robert Hanssen, NATO's Anchor Express Exercise proving an absolute disaster while Norwegian engineers were advancing toward the USSR through the Vassdalen Valley, and Atlantic Fleet Commander Admiral Carl Trost refusing to back up its effort with four carrier battle groups of Task Force Eagle because of the reckless nature of Washington's ruse. Under the circumstances, the Reagan administration threw the book at Pollard, sentencing him to life in prison because it believed that he had ruined things.

Of course, Tel Aviv was furious over Pollard's treatment, trying to mitigate his punishment several times, especially after Ames and Hanssen were finally exposed for their roles in frustrating the conspiracy. During the Camp David meetings to implement the Oslo Accords, Israeli hardliners Binyamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon, who were well acquainted with the people who had assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for having signed them for Israel - to make up for his role as Defense Minister when the HAWK missile fiasco occurred - expected Pollard's release as a condition of agreement, but President Clinton refused because of all the opposition by those involved in Operations Tree and Armageddon. They feared that Pollard would start telling tales, once he returned to Tel Aviv.

Once Sharon gained power in his own right, thanks to the activities of his election manager, former special forces operative Meir Dagan, the Israeli Prime Minister turned the Mossad loose to end any hope of the Olso Accords being implemented, and any further delay in Pollard's release. Dagan aka "the gun" is a veteran leader of kidons, four-man assassination teams, whose victims include Elie Hobeikan, the Hamas leader in Lebanon, to prevent any trial of Sharon in Belgium for war crimes, and the infamous Mossad agent Abu Nidal in Baghdad to prevent any counterproductive leaks about its operations leading up to Palme's murder during the showdown with Saddam. In fact, Nidal's assassination was such a windfall for Israel that it agreed to make Dagan the Mossad's Director General despite his political connections with Sharon.

As Gordon Thomas has tellingly pointed out, especially in his articles, "Mossad - The World's Most Efficient Killing Machine," and "Mossad's Killing Machine comes to Britain," Meir is eager, with only Sharon's approval, to eliminate anyone by means of his high-tech equipped, and knife-armed squads who threaten Jewish interests, or support an independent Palestinian state. Each assassination is carried out without any concern for diplomatic niceties or consultation with intelligence services of friendly states, and uses a unique strategy for hitting each target. Each mission aims to kill at close quarters with a knife, wire or gun where the terror in the victim's eyes can clearly be seen. About the men and women involved, Thomas added, "all are in their late twenties."

With this agenda, Anna Lindh, known for her commitment to human rights, European development, and democracy, recently moved up to the top of Sharon's hit list, it seems, with her denunciations of 'Lone Ranger' Bush's war against Iraq, while condemning American treatment of prisoners captured in Afghanistan. Lindh had similar complaints of Israel's treatment of the West Bank and Gaza, particularly its targeted killings of Palestinian militants, because it would lead to the end of the 'road map' to peace. Her assassination also had apparently the attraction of finally persuading the Department of Justice to agree to a mitigation of Pollard's punishment, what a Federal judge in currently considering.

As the election for adopting the euro approached, a kidon, it seems, came to Sweden, ostensibly to protect Jewish property and lives from Muslim extremists but actually to stalk the Foreign Minister until she could be killed with little risk of anyone being caught. The main synagogue and library in Stockholm is little more than a stone's throw from the NK department store where the assassination was planned to take place.

Using the latest electronic equipment to monitor her calls, and conversations, last Wednesday the team moved into high gear to kill her, once it learned that she was going shopping with a friend. 'The Ripper' was fitted with a head set to keep track of their movements, and any threats from security people. Once the assassin had stolen the hunting knife from the Clas Ohlsson shop in the Galeria, he was guided to the ladies dressing room on NK's first floor by colleagues who were keeping track of Lindh's movements where he quickly sliced her guts up in most professional fashion.

When Lindh died 12 hours later, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that Israel was considering the forcible removal of Yasser Arafat from the Palestinian territories, assassinating him if necessary, to throw off anyone from thinking that it had just killed the Foreign Minister. Of course, Israel never says who it is going to assassinate. It just kills them without any questions, as Abu Nidal, Rabin, and Gerald Bull, the architect of Saddam long-range pipe cannon, would readily testify if they somehow came back from the dead. Once the kidon who assassinated Lindh had safely fled Sweden, the Israeli Foreign Minister Sylvan Shalom dismissed all talk of Israel wanting to assassinate Arafat, and its supporters in the press, like The Guardian's David Aaronovich, joking about the whole idea.

The Mossad, like of old, had done it again.

Trowbridge H. Ford, Ph. D. http://www.lindqvist.com/index.php?newID=1515
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Another thoughful piece in pdf format:
http://www.cesc.net/adobeweb/circleweb/annalindh.pdf
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Another interesting article - adding yet another murder victim. I don't agree with the Israelis likely involvment with Dallas mentioned at the end - but don't rule it out complelely.I see no evidence for it, however.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1120

Peter, I doubt whether we will very know who was responsible for either the Palme or Lindh killings. There are suggestions that there was a South African connection to the Palme assassination, although I suspect that this, if true, was simply a contracted-out arrangement. Chip Tatum said years ago that the truth would never come out -- and since he was in this line of work, one can imagine that his insight might have some relevance. The impression received was that the US had a hand in this, though.

I also have some doubts about the Israeli's being held responsible for these things. As often as not, I suspect they are useful scapegoats, as with the Robert Maxwell death. A close(and senior) colleague of his who I know believes those responsible for Maxwell were Anglo-American interests, because he worked for both countries intelligence services and had much sensitive information that he might have tried to use to leverage his failing business -- and that use of pressure got him killed. Makes sense.

Overall however, I am partial to the explanation for Lindh's "removal" (assuming it wasn't as told officially) was because of the immense changes in Sweden's social system that has been implemented since Lindh's death. One of the things Tatum insisted he specialized on was the implementation of combined operation of G7 nations to foster desired changes around the world, and I continue to wonder over the years if is the case... an increasingly fascist leaning world in other words.

Not to divert the thread, but since you mention and it IS related, I have reason to believe Palme was mostly US, next rightwing Swedes and a few others as 'mechanics'. Palme was [unbeknowst to him or the world] about to be the first to expose what was later to become known as Iran-Contra. He was long hated for being a 'communist' in rightwing American parlance [i.e. a Social Democrat who really walked the walk, and not just talked the talk]. Anyone who wants to know who killed Palme would do well to ask Oliver North and his friends.....up to GWB

A wire was 3 days before the murder sent from Licio Gelli, grand master of the Italian freemason-lodge P2 (Propagande Due), to Philip Guarino, a close confidant to then vice president George Bush with the text "Tell our friend that the Swedish tree will be felled". P2 is linked to terrorbombings, kidnapping and murder.
In a radiointerview in L.A. former CIA agent Gene Tatum revealed that a special operations team, Operation Sub-Groups (OSG) , created by V.P/ George Bush, was behind the murder. A tip of South African and SÄPO involvement came from the director of Swedish civil defence organization and claimed that an Englishman known to him had obtained this info from MI6. The tape of this disappeared. Alan Cranston, is reported to have recieved a letter from a prisoner in California with allegations that WACL (World anticommunist league) had planned the murder. The letter disappeared en route between a US Agency and the Swedish embassy in D.C.

You are correct, Israel is often blamed for things they didn't start, however, they sometimes 'sign-up' to be the cut-out or designated entity to take the 'rap' if found out. They often play a peripheral role and, at times, more than peripheral..... It is my own sense they played second or third fiddle on Palme and Lindh - but played some role in both. The third assassination mentioned seems to have been a Mossad job.