
Bomb Blasts Pave Way for Surveillance as Swedes React to Terror
Sweden’s brush with terror after a suicide bomber on Dec. 11 detonated himself before executing a planned strike in central Stockholm has eroded lawmaker resistance to pushing through tougher surveillance laws.
The opposition Social Democrats will no longer block a government proposal to let the Swedish Security Service use information from the National Defense Radio Establishment, said Morgan Johansson, chairman of parliament’s justice committee. The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, which entered parliament for the first time in September elections, want lawmakers to address “violent Islamist extremism” in an extraordinary session, party spokesman Martin Kinnunen said.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-14/bomb-blasts-clear-way-for-tighter-surveillance-as-swedes-react-to-terror.html
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