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| Sweden refuses to shut down Kavkaz |
| 2005-03-24 |
| Sweden does not intend to close Kavkaz-Center Internet web-site, Swedish ambassador Johan Molander told journalists in Moscow on Wednesday. No steps that contravene the Swedish constitution will be taken, the ambassador said. Freedom of the press is the pillar of our social system, he said. The diplomat declared that he saw no link between the freedom of the press and terrorist acts and believes that the Swedish mass media might interview both ambassadors and terrorists. The explosion of a car that belonged to a Russian diplomat is linked to the position of the Swedish mass media that popularizes the views of Chechen separatists, a diplomatic source said in Moscow. On March 21, the Swedish National News Agency TT circulated an interview with ringleader of Chechen illegal armed formations Shamil Basayev, the source said. Thus, a direct link between the information space given to separatists by the Swedish News Agency and practical activities of the terrorists is absolutely obvious, the Russian diplomatic source said. The activities undertaken by terrorists in fact encourage the practice of unpunished violence with passive attitude of the Swedish authorities, the Russian diplomat said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Kavkaz is largely a vehicle for Basayev (Khattab is not around to headline anymore) and was closely coordinated with the old "azzam.com" jihadi site. Hell, Basayev's selling his "Book of a Mujahid" on it these days! Johan's general reference to "Freedom of the Press" doesn't explain why harboring an outlet for a self-avowed murderer of civilians is acceptable. |
| Posted by: Tkat 2005-03-24 9:09:09 AM |