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Report: Swedish police arrest four suspected of aiding Islamic State
2015-02-18
[Ynet] Swedish police incarcerated
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
four people in the Stockholm area on Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and local media reported the authorities believed the money had been sent to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Death Eaters in Syria. The Swedish Economic Crime Authority said money laundering was suspected in six companies but further details could not be provided while the investigation was under way.

Citing unnamed sources, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reported the state prosecutor believed the suspects, three men and one woman, sent money to Islamic State. The police operation was described as coordinated and well-planned.
The Times of Israel added this bit of background:
Swedish government agencies estimate that up to 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.19 million, 1.05 million euros) are sent to violent Lion of Islam groups every year.

"A few million may sound like not a lot of money, but remember that an act of terror rarely costs more than 100,000 kronor to execute," Jonas Clausen Mork at the Swedish Defense Research Agency told Dagens Nyheter.

In January, the Swedish intelligence service said 130 Swedes had joined jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria since 2012.
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