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Ground Zero and the Saudi connection

Fri, Aug 23 2002 04:50 | articles | Permalink
This article by Stephen Schwartz, was published in the Spectator the 22nd of September and in the Sunday Telegraph the 23rd of September 2001.The first thing to do when trying to understand ‘Islamic suicide bombers’ is to forget the clichés about the Muslim taste for martyrdom. It does exist, of course, but the desire for paradise is not a safe guide to what motivated the appalling suicide
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For the Followers Bacchus

Fri, Aug 23 2002 04:49 | articles | Permalink
Last night, I opened a bottle that I knew was still young and not ready to drink. It was a reputable Reserva from the Rioja , a 1995, it would be 5 years old in one month. I hadn’t tasted it since I acquired it at the bodega four months prior and, perhaps it was because my birthday was in two days, or simply the desire to prove to myself that I had made a good buy. So I opened it.What was
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Carin och Herman

Fri, Aug 23 2002 02:49 | articles | Permalink
När man talar om orsakerna till att Sverige inte angreps av Tyskland, dras ofta Göring upp. Han kallades i den tyska ledningen för ”der Schwedenreferent”, dvs. den som hade med Sverige att göra, Sverige specialisten. Egentligen inte utan orsak. Han hade bott i Sverige och talade bra svenska. Följaktligen skulle han inverka till förmån för oss hos Hitler. Huruvida så var fallet är mycket
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Baltutlämningen del 3

Thu, Aug 22 2002 08:10 | articles | Permalink
Dagen efter, den 26 november skulle äntligen det definitiva utlämningsbeslutet fattas i konselj. Uppe på slottet tog kungen och kronprinsen emot Per Albin Hansson, Undén, Vougt, Zetterberg, Danileson och Nils Quensel, som senare skrev om konseljen i sina memoarer. Resten av regeringen hade blivit kallade försent. Jag undrar om Harald skötte kallelserna den gången? Det blev en rörig konselj. Först
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Baltutlämningen del 2

Thu, Aug 22 2002 08:01 | articles | Permalink
Fram mot september - oktober organiserades lägren om och flyktingarna flyttades till läger där det skulle vara enklare att evakuerara dem till utskeppningshamnarna. Man ville också förbereda sig inför vintern. Tidigare hade de flesta bott i tält. På samma gång byttes en del svenska befäl ut. Förflyttnigarna skapade oro och irritation. Havdhem lägret på Gotland stängdes, med den konstiga
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Baltutlämningen del 1

Thu, Aug 22 2002 07:53 | articles | Permalink
Följande text ingår den biografi jag skriver om min fader, diplomaten Harald Edelstam. Fotnoterna kommer tyvärr inte med i denna internetversion. Fler delar kommer vartefter Baltutlämningen är en skändlig händelse i Sveriges moderna historia, som fortfarande kastar sina långa skuggor över samlingsregeringen och senare socialdemokraterna, som bildade regering i september. Särskilt tungt faller
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The ethnic cleansing of the Germans after World War II

Thu, Aug 22 2002 02:51 | articles | Permalink
Some years ago, I stood in the pouring rain at the Bregenzstrasse in Berlin in an attempt to look for the shadows of my parents in 1941. - My father Harald, then a young, good looking, enthusiastic attaché at the Swedish legation in Berlin, with high ambitions and my mother Louise, innocent and sweet, with dimples in her cheeks and my new-born brother Carl in her arms, lived in one end of the
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Nordic parties in August

Sat, Aug 17 2002 04:39 | articles | Permalink
Sweden is a country of contrasts. Very dark in winter, light all night long in summer; few every day outings in restaurants or with friends, but enormous national feasts; equality of all people at all levels, yet very formal traditions still prevailing; wine monopoly and a vast majority who make their liquor at home… One of Sweden’s peculiarities is its august parties. August is the month when we
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Pick-nick at Lutzen

Tue, Aug 13 2002 03:43 | Travels | Permalink
The war is called the 30-year war and was generally a religious was with protestants pitted against catholics. The catholic, Habsburg emperor, wanted to take over the north German, protestant states, which they resisted. The protestant states lost their battles against the mighty emperor and asked the Swedish king for help. “The Lion from the North”, as he later was called, responded swiftly and
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