The Unsolved Murder of
Anna Lindh
from the daily blogs of
William Shepherd
December
2006
The Unsolved Murder of
Anna Lindh
from the daily blogs of
William Shepherd
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About the Manuscript
At the end of 2005 William Shepherd
was living in Llangolman fifteen miles inland from Cardigan in
The overarching theme of this 2006
blog would be ‘What I Do All Day’. Journal entries were to be one-page long and
posted to the internet on the same day they were written. By the end of the
year a 500-600 page book would have been written that would be some sort of
hybrid between the diaries of a Samuel Pepys or a John Evelyn and the books of
autobiography of a Priestley or a Belloc. Quite a challenge.
In the summer of 2006 in the middle
of his blogging project William Shepherd spent six weeks living in an apartment
in Sundbyberg, a suburb of
The manuscript is available online in
an html version which includes the links from the original blogs, and in a pdf
format for printing in booklet form. A link to The Unsolved Murder of Anna Lindh has been added to the English Wikipedia article on Anna Lindh.
But whether it will stay there is another matter. There are permalinks to the
original blogs at http://williamshepherd.blog.co.uk.
Please make your comments online or use the blog to contact William Shepherd.
The anonymity of whistleblowers will be vigorously protected.
About the Author
William Shepherd (60) is the author
of The Rise & Fall of the Swedish
Green Party (1982-1997) published in 1989; The Politics of the English Pound (2002); and
William Shepherd lives in
Tuesday 18th
April 2006 - ws108
A hundred years ago a foreshock rocked the
I was in
We felt a need to set up a Center for Conspiracy Studies. David took the idea to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
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Sunday 9th July
2006 - ws190
Sweden’s World Broadcasting Service has only ever had a tiny fraction of the
resources of the BBC World Service.
But
Small budgets allowed producers at Radio Sweden International to introduce innovations in style,
substance and format that might take decades to permeate through the top-heavy
hierarchies of the BBC. Alan Pryke
invented the Music Documentary with
his ABBA programmes
in the 1980s two decades before the BBC
starting commissioning Outside Production
Companies to prepare this ear food for evening listening at peak time on BBC Radio
Two.
Programme formats like Andrew Marr’s Start of the Week, Libby Purves’ Midweek and Melvyn Bragg’s In
Our Time were features of Radio
Unnoticed too has been Alan Pryke’s political interviews. In an
age of the Rottweiler Interview of a
Brian Redhead, John Humphries, Jeremy Paxman or Jonathan Ross and the Talk Show Approach of a David Frost,
Jimmy Young, Michael Parkinson or Channel
Four’s Richard & Judy, Alan Pryke’s interviews with up-and-coming
politicians like Anna Lindh
have a style that blends respect with curiosity and tempers scepticism with
affection for the values that the Swedish
politician bring to public life…consensus, cooperation, fairness, equality,
decency and common courtesy.
From 1984 to 1990 Anna headed up Sweden’s
Young Social Democrats and from 1991
to 1994 she chaired the board
of Stockholm City Theatre and was
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Wednesday 12th July 2006 - ws193
Three
months ago I wrote about the idea of a Center
for Conspiracy Studies. Such an institute would interest itself in
assassinations and develop a danger rating system…one to five, colours of the
rainbow, that sort of thing. I had in mind an Assassination Risk Index and league tables. I was not planning to
go as far as John Marlan Poindexter…80 next month…and set up a Futures Market
in ARIs. But as with the Theoretical Physicist’s Thought Experiments,
the methodology…how and who to aggregate, criteria to adopt, measurement and
analysis of data…would be interesting.
After an assassination…Olof Palme, John Lennon,
Princess Diana…or a failed assassination attempt…President Reagan, Pope John
Paul II…investigations veer off in two directions…the WhoDunnit and the WhyDunnit.
The police, charged with finding the killer and the evidence to have him
convicted, interest themselves in motive if it helps get their man. Once they
have him they turn to gathering the evidence the prosecutors need to get a conviction.
Here the Swedish system of
calibrating arrest warrants with the Quality
of Suspicion is a good one.
In the Anna Lindh case for instance Per-Olof Svensson
was apprehended on Tuesday 16th September
2003…five days after the murder…and detained as a suspect on justifiable
grounds…the lowest degree of suspicion. Then on Wednesday 24th September
2003…two weeks after the attack that killed the Swedish Foreign Minister…Mijailo Mijailović was apprehended on the
higher level of suspicion of probable cause. And Per-Olof Svensson was
released.
This
seems to be the right way to proceed. My sympathies are with the police. They need
to be cautious. They may not be sure they have the right man but they are
reluctant to let him go if there is a chance they have got it right. Of course
an innocent man should not be deprived of his freedom just as a guilty man
should be charged with his crime. But nobody has any problems with these cases.
It is the grey areas that are difficult when the police are not sure they have
the right man. In practice there may be conflicting views within the police or
they may be worried about having insufficient evidence to win a conviction so
they hope something will come up if they hold the man in custody.
But this is a problem for police and prosecutors. The
ordinary Agatha Christie reading
middle classes are more interested in the WhyDunnit
than the WhoDunnit…as are Public Authorities responsible for
protecting law-abiding citizens. They do not cry over spilt milk. They learn what
they can and move on. Their job is to prevent new killings. Prosecutors are
also interested in the motive. Magistrates and Jurors need convincing.
Arguments of defending counsel need deflecting. Victims too have an interest in
a murderer being apprehended and punished…and Islamic Law deals with this better than our own legal systems.
But the Search
for Motive has fallen between too many stools as it gets parcelled out
between Investigating Journalists, Police Detectives, Crown Prosecutors and in high profile cases…the killing of Dr
David Kelly for instance...a shadowy Fourth Estate which the press delight in referring to as the Intelligence Services. Singly none of
these groups are up to the job…and each looks over his shoulder and locks his
desk at night. Their theoretical framework is inadequate…and will remain so
until there is a paradigm shift in the definition of Killing and Killingry.
Mr & Mrs
Public may be
for or against capital punishment or think 20-years incarceration is too much
or too little…and the broadcast media and the tabloid press can always whip up
a debate. But while Joe Public might
express an opinion if you ask him he is indifferent to the fate of the
murderer…as likely to feel pity as fury. Jennie
Public feels she understands the WhyDunnit
with crimes of passion because she has been there…and stepped back from the
brink. She understands how others might not be able to. Senseless killings too
can be explained in terms of the lottery of life…the victim was in the wrong
place at the wrong time and there are evil people out there.
Even Killing for
a Cause is understandable if you get into the mind of the Suicide Bomber. It was the planes and
not the fighter pilots and Bomber Crews
that were in short supply in the early years of the Hitler War. Men went off to certain death in response to patriotic
fervour and social pressure…particularly from women. Moreover dying is
glamorous. Beowolf‘s purpose was to die gloriously so future generations
would honour his memory in song.
Neither Olof Palme nor Anna Lindh died Glorious Deaths. Nor do I accept for one
moment that their deaths were from Indiscriminate
Slaughter. They were murdered. Orders were given. Instructions were carried
out that should have been ignored. Just as the Vocation and Toil of the Medieval World have disappeared and been
replaced by something Ivan Illich calls Shadow
Work. So Glorious Death and Indiscriminate Slaughter are being
replaced by Shadow Death…Stalin
Purges, Nazi Holocausts, Genocide in Darfur, Srebrenica and Rwanda, Starvation
by World Trade Terrorism, Killing for Profits, Annihilation by Debt…and the Political Assassination is returning.
Shadow Killing may be Impersonal and Killingry
may be Depersonalised but the Human Race must strive to move beyond Contract Killings and the Nuremberg Defence as the way to settle
differences…just as our forefathers moved beyond Slavery
as an organising principle for society. An Assassination Risk Index is one place
to start.
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Sunday 16th July 2006 - ws197
I
never met Anna Lindh…the Swedish Foreign
Minister who was assassinated three years ago. There was a time in the
early 90s when I thought it inevitable that our paths would cross. But that was
before her star shot high into the political stratosphere…while mine crashed to
earth with the
Whenever I
was in
Sabine
Kurjo McNeill put me in touch with Elisabet. ‘You must promise me you will call
her the moment you get to
I would meet Elisabet at one of the Vete Kattens in
Fourth World Review published four of my articles during the
early 90s…Real Questions on Land (1990 fwr 38); The Luddites (1991 fwr 43); Not Guilty (1991 fwr 48) and Peaceful Anarchy (1995 fwr 69). Then
there was The Rise & Fall of the Swedish Green Party (1982-1997)
and my translation of Lena Rainer’s book For
Sweden Carl XVI Gustav In Keeping With The Times published for the 50th
birthday of the King of Sweden
on 30th April 1996. This is enough to put me in the Monarchists Camp if another English Civil War breaks out…and it is
not out of the question.
In
When I started writing the Swedish
politics book I was a poor penniless poet living on ₤40 a week of Enterprise Allowance and commuting
between a Bed & Breakfast
establishment in St John’s Court in Canterbury and a small room at the top
of my old college friend Peter Mechlin Thompson’s house on Church Road in Watford. My daughter was 16 years old at the time and had been
asking all sorts of questions about politics and economics so I wrote it for
her and her generation…and conceived it as a book that would one day be used
for English language teaching in
I had no inclination to tout my wares around the publishing houses
suspecting…quite rightly it turns out with the hindsight of 15 years in the
game…that my book would end up on the slush pile with a few hundred other
unsolicited manuscripts. Publishers occasionally take on an unknown fiction
writer but non-fiction is always commissioned.
I started up my own publishing company…and called it Academic Inn Books in memory of Professor Leopold
Kohr.
But it was not all smooth sailing. Just as I was gearing up to write the
book my daughter
ran away from Mummy in
In the beginning the book did not come easy because it got itself entangled
with two other manuscripts. But once I realised this and split it off from a
manuscripts on Nuclear Power Politics
and some remarks about Maps and Models things fell into place. By the
time I embarked on Tor Anglia for a
few months on Kungsholmen the book
was with the typesetters in Glastonbury
and Helena was in a rented room in Canterbury…waiting
at tables in the evening.
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Sunday 23rd July
2006 - ws204
In the summer of 1982 my girlfriend Linda Blitz
wheedled $300 out of Marilyn Ferguson for
me to spend three weeks working at her
My weak memory of
the great
In my literary record under Articles
is Bioelectricity (1982 bmb-la) and
under Book Reviews is The Soviet Military (1982 le-la)…a review of three books on the Soviet Military Machine that came out in
an issue of Leading Edge that praised
the EastWest Institute and its
non-governmental People to People
bridging across the Iron Curtain. The
pieces on Bioelectricity went into a
special issue of Brain-Mind Bulletin
on the subject.
Another
interesting thing Linda organised for me before we went our separate ways after
a whirlwind romance was one of ten free places she had persuaded John
Grinder…co-author of Frogs to
Princes…to provide to anti-nuclear activists on his $2000 weekend NLP Hypnosis course in
The mind technology for doing people’s heads in…one
day this will be known as the Mancurian Candidate Defence…was
already available in 1982…and it scared the living daylights out of Daniel
Ellsberg and myself. There was no way to control it. Yet here were the CIA creating skilled practitioners. If it could be used for evil purposes then it
would. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. This was madness. Being
linguistically based I thought there might be limits to Neuro-Linguistic Implanting…but that was almost 25-years ago. What
was going on here?
My Anna
Lindh Dossier currently has several appendices. One has tributes and obituaries;
another has the facts of the killing, while a third includes essays about plans
for the One World
State and others about the neocons
partial version of Sir Halford Mackinder’s geopolitical ideas…which includes Heartlands vs Rimlands but airbrushes
out Landsmen vs Seamen and Locality vs Interests. This is the
version of Mackinder that Bush & Blair have been sold by the Deputy
Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz…Chris
Fettweis at the
Mackinder’s Heartland
Theory is taught at the Pentagon.
Here is an extract from an article from 2000 in Parameters the US Army War
College Quarterly: ‘One of the reasons that Mackinder is being resurrected
is because policy-makers are searching for ways to deal with the heart of his Heartland - Central Asia and the Caspian
Sea - which is a region that has the potential to become a major source of
great-power contention in the next century. Some analysts estimate that the
fossil fuels in the region will transform it into a ‘new
Talk about tired
old generals fighting the last war. Mackinder barely gave a thought to
Governments need to be dismantled and governance
dealt with some other way. Imagine if Anna Lindh had been talking this
way…suggesting that each American State should have a seat at the United Nations or that the hegemony of
the global Gun Running cartel…the UN Security Council…must be disbanded.
It would be
Yet it is a
strange idea that puts assassinations into three categories: Governments who assassinate after
democratic deliberations, Rogue States
who sponsor terrorist groups to murder their enemies and Private Mafias who put out contracts and offer Killingry Services. Anyone with money can kill…not so much to order
as to prejudice. The police seek the killer but his motive is only a means to
conviction. It is not their job to look further. But someone should.
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Thursday
27th July 2006 - ws208
Shortly after four on the afternoon of Wednesday 10th
September 2003 Anna Lindh was murdered while shopping in the ladies' department
at the Nordiska Kompaniet
department store in the centre of
Anna Lindh was rushed to Karolinska Hospital where she
underwent surgery for over nine hours receiving blood transfusions continually
during the operation. She suffered internal bleeding and her liver was
seriously damaged. At first she appeared to have improved after her surgery.
But then an hour later complications set in and Anna Lindh was announced dead
at 05:29 am local time on Thursday 11th September
2003.
Following the attack an anonymous phone line was set up and a
massive manhunt
launched in
On 6th January 2004
Mijailović confessed to the police that he killed Anna Lindh and gave a
full account of the events on 10th September in
an extra session of police questioning requested by his legal counsel Peter Althin…a Member of
Parliament for the Christian
Democrats. From 14th to 17th January 2004
a trial took place in
On 8th July an
Mijailo Mijailović was born on 6th December 1978
in
Swedish newspapers report that Mijailović
was released from a mental institution five days before the killing of Anna
Lindh and had serious mental problems and had previously been convicted of
violent crimes. Mijailović
is said to have been greatly angered by Anna Lindh's staunch support for the US-led
military campaign against
Anna Lindh was born on 19th
June 1957 and was married to the Governor
of Södermanland Bo Holmberg and had
two sons David & Filip. She was born
in Enskede, a south-eastern suburb of
Chair of the National Council of Swedish Youth
Organisations (1981-1983); Member of
the Swedish Parliament
and member of the Parliamentary Committee on Taxation (1982-1985); Chair of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (1984-1990); Member of the Executive
Committee of the Social
Democratic Party (1991-2003); Stockholm City Commissioner for Culture and
Leisure, Chair of Stockholm City Theatre (1991-1994);
Minister and Head of the Ministry of the Environment (1994-1998); Minister and Head of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (1998-2003).
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Friday 28th July
2006 - ws209
It was February 1982 and I had just returned to
Linda was in
On this particular Wednesday it had been arranged…through the services of
the mutual friend Linda was staying with in Cambridge…that
we would meet at a restaurant on Huron
Avenue after I had picked up the boys from school at midday. Linda had cold
feet at the last minute and had to be kicked out the door so turned up half an
hour late by which time my Young Arabs
were starting to wreck the place. I was getting up to leave when Linda finally
put in her appearance…in my memory a vision of loveliness silhouetted in the
doorway with the sunlight behind her.
We hit it off at once…Buckminster Fuller and the Anti-Nuclear Movement being our connecting points. An affair was
the last thing on my mind as I was happily married. Indeed Ingrid and I were
regarded as the perfect couple…the only biological parents of any children in
my daughter’s class still together. It was one of those whirlwind romances you
read about in novels…something you catch like the flu.
Linda was and no doubt still is a remarkable woman though I have had no
contact with her since the summer of ‘82…dazzlingly intelligent, knock-you-down
social personality…bundled together with some insecurity and flawed self-esteem
into an irresistible brew. But eventually the calls on my time and emotional energy
meant that my work started to suffer. Enough was enough so I gritted my teeth
and jetted back to the East Coast…alone.
Mary McCartney’s The Company I Keep describes
a variation of the type well…one you can’t live with or without. So Real Men eventually give up trying and
take the 2-weeks of hell necessary to break the emotional and psychic
bonds.
By
one of those quirky coincidences-cum-synchronicities my investigation into the
killing of Anna Lindh has brought me face to face with the Tides Foundation once again. In 2004 and 2005 they gave $150
million in grants to 6000 organisations. But when I knew them back in 1982 it
was as much as they could do to raise the $40 000 a year to support one
activist and his family…at least that was what they told me. Tides and Stewart Mott get on well together.
The Stewart Mott
Foundation was to Californian 1980s Reformistas what the Rowntree
Foundation is to English 2000
Reformistas with everyone around Linda collecting money from Stewart Mott whenever they passed GO.
But nowadays the Tides Foundation and
the Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation inter-fund each other in a strangely incestuous
manner while pouring enormous amounts of money into the EastWest Institute…since
at least 1993.
In 2004 the East-West
Institute awarded Anna Lindh their Statesman
of the Year Award and in 2005 gave a Statesman
of the Decade Award to the strangely funded
Right Honourable Tony Blair. This is odd coming from an institute created be John Edwin Mroz…a Council
for Foreign Relations member who recently received
the Order of the White Double-Cross
(2nd level) from Slovak
President Ivan Gašparovič for his work on NATO integration.
Eugene Pinschof may believe the Austro-Hungarian
Empire to be rather a Good Thing…but
not everybody does.
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Wednesday
2nd August 2006 - ws214
There will be two very sad boys next
summer at their mother’s 50th birthday…for she will not be there.
She was murdered three years ago. When she was their age she wanted to be a
librarian…so she could read books all day. But her life changed dramatically in
1969 when at the age of 12 she wrote to the Uppsala
MP Birgitta
Dahl…chair of Olof Palme’s Vietnam
Committee…telling her of the Vietnam
War
Display she was planning for her Local School.
Her sons’ interests might have been better served if
Birgitta Dahl had advised their mother to work hard, play hard…and take to
heart John Keats’ Ode on Indolence.
Had Anna Lindh received and heeded this advice her grandchildren might be
celebrating Farmor’s 80th
birthday on 19th June 2037 by which time she would have become a Local Hero idolised
by several generations of local children who had loved her and been loved by
her.
At the first Radical
Consultation five years ago I convened the Work and Human Fulfilment Workshop. In the first session we
recorded each key
point made in the course of the discussion. After two hours the number of key
points had reached one hundred so we adjourned for lunch. After lunch a rating
of 1 (irrelevant) to 5 (crucial) was attributed to them. Our workshop’s
presentation to the Full Plenary Session is in the Conference
Proceedings.
On the issue of Vocation and Toil
we took the view that one of the aims of society should be to liberate people
from toil. But the purpose of doing so was not to turn them into Leisure Consumers but to direct their
attention towards Good Work…by which we meant work that was socially
useful, ecologically acceptable and humanly fulfilling.
In our summary of the
discussion we remarked that Schooling
was indoctrinating young people with the Career
Mentality rather than instilling in them the idea of Good
Work; that School Career Fairs
were dominated by Big Business…Price
Waterhouse instead of Purton Farm…and that Big Problems were perceived as requiring Global Organisations…which is where all the really Big Jobs were to be found. We believed
this was wrong.
Instead we suggested the
encouragement of the idea that a myriad of little local personal responses
might be a better approach; that Food
Work should be an integral part of everyone’s Annual Round and that work needed to become Personal and Proximate...rather
than Impersonal and serving Distant Needs. We recommended more Own Work
and wider circulation of books like Future Work and Future Wealth by
James
Robertson.
I do not intend to speculate about Anna
Lindh’s killers. I have no Insider
Knowledge, no Deep Throat to
point me in the right direction and no Investigative
Resources to call upon. But it is quite wrong to dismiss people as Assassination Freaks…arguing the
improbable complexity of any Conspiracy
Theory…just because they believe there was a reason for getting rid of Anna
Lindh. I accept the argument. But the Random
Lone Assassin Scenario shares this complexity. On the face of it both explanations are wildly improbable. Yet
one of them is correct.
My own position is that the more you weigh
the improbabilities the more implausible suicides…Petra
and David
Kelly…become and the more a pattern seems to be emerging where turbulent
priests whatever their persuasion are removed by Lone Assassins and Violent
Accidental Death…John Lennon,
Princess
Diana, Olof
Palme.
Killing the killers is no longer
necessary…Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan
Sirhan…it is enough to effect the assassin’s escape and delay his
capture until the Men In White Coats
get to work to wipe clean the mental slate…or neuro-linguistically cover up
previous traces. At John
Grinder’s NLP and Hypnosis
seminar in
And just how difficult is it to plant a
sleeper at a hospital or gain access to the patient during the chaos of an
emergency? If the blood sample from Princess
Diana’s chauffeur can be replaced…and this appears increasingly likely…then
how improbable is it that blood for transfusions can be poisoned and switched?
Hospitals are Dangerous Places at the best of
time…and security is never at the top of their agenda. Even in
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Friday
4th August 2006 - ws216
Yesterday was my last full day in Stockholm…perhaps for a while…and I had
a few errands left to do so I took the Orient
Express to Kungsträdgården…the
scene of one of the world’s first Green
Protests in the late sixties over an old gnarled oak tree that the
authorities planned to pull down to make way for a subway exit. Sverigehuset used to be the place to go
for Things Swedish…like Carl
Larsson’s books My Home, My
Family and My Farm. My Swedish Monarchy book also sold well
from the best bookshop in
Carl Larsson was on my list once again.
But topping the list this time round was a DVD of Ingmar Bergman’s production
of Mozart’s The
Magic Flute which is well-nigh impossible to get in
In NK’s
Music Department on the top floor an assistant found me a
Nordiska
Kompaniet on Stockholm’s Kungsgatan is the most
elegant department store in
Three other things struck me. Firstly
baseball caps are not de rigour at NK. I saw just one in the whole time I
was there...on the head of an American
Tourist who had either wandered in by accident or was hanging about waiting
for his wife. Secondly there were almost no surveillance cameras in evidence on
the first floor…just one at the top of the escalator and a couple to prevent
shoplifting pointing at the clothes racks. Perhaps they are hidden?
The public was told that the baseball-cap
photos that got Per-Olof
Svensson arrested produced two days after the stabbing came from
surveillance cameras above the first floor. This would mean the attack taking
place fairly close to the central atrium. Based on floor space and lay-out the
chances of that were about 1 in 15…and I failed to spot any cameras anyway.
Thirdly…and perhaps I am being naïve
expecting this of a business…but I thought I would find some mark of respect or
some recognition of the events of the day before Nine Eleven…a plaque or a display collecting for the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund. But there is
nothing there at all. NK seems to
have airbrushed out the incident from their corporate psyche. I was tempted to
interview a shop assistant but it was Ladieswear
and I was unsure just how my morbid curiosity would be received so discretion
won the day. But it was surreal. And I left the store bewildered.
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Saturday
5th August 2006 - ws217
Conspiracy Theorists do a rather poor job of discriminating
between the State of Israel, American Jewry, the Jewish Diaspora,
The Zionists and International Jewish Finance when cobbling
together their accusations. So I sympathise with Jewish exasperations
and share their concerns about the consequences of such faulty renditions of
reality.
I have come across some intriguing
conspiracy theories in my time and a Zionist one found its way into
the appendix of my manuscript The Jewish Question compiled in
The theory is that Zionists have
conspired to link the large Jewish Communities in
In Wednesday’s weblog I suggested that
killing the killer is off the agenda…but maybe not. Last week Mijailo Mijailovic…convicted
of the murder of Anna Lindh…attacked a
fellow intern in his Swedish Psychiatric Clinic in Sundsvall
supposedly to get himself into the safety of the clinic’s hospital wards.
Apparently a local newspaper ran a story that a warden had been bribed to
smuggle a gun into the clinic to be used to kill Mijailović. The story is
apparently untrue but confirmed Mijailović’s suspicions that he is a
target for assassination. Strange times indeed.
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Saturday
12th August 2006 - ws224
After an
assassination you can follow the Motive,
the Man or the Money...and with enough resources you can run all three
investigations in parallel. The methodology for the Motive
Investigation is to begin with a Who?
Whom? Analysis (WWA) to establish who wins and loses by removal of the
turbulent priest. The best people for this are insiders intimate with the work
flowing across their desk, the phone calls made and the meetings scheduled.
Anna Lindh may have been Sweden’s Foreign Minister but she was
also a long-standing Social Democrat
Party Member. It is easy to look the wrong way. As one example Anna Lindh
understood Stockholm and would have
realised that replacing the long-established Tenancy System with a Bostadsrätt
System would further impoverish the poor and benefit only the rich...many
of them from outside Sweden in Germany, Russia and elsewhere.
Anna may have set herself against allowing
local residents to work four days a week to pay mortgage interest to the banks
when they could continue working just one day a week to pay rent to their Housing Association. Most Social Democrats would have opposed a Clearance Policy in
Stockholm
Property Mafias with
billions of kronor at speculation would have no qualms in paying for her removal.
They might threaten her children first. Perhaps they did? Who would she tell?
Perhaps the modern way is to kill first to avoid questions later. It would be a
bonus that investigators would be looking elsewhere for her killers. After the
assassin is back under your control the next task is to lay false trails across
the path of your pursuers. Investigative websites spring up after most
assassinations...some may be disinformation sites. Scepticism is required.
This example is not intended as a subtle
hint...there are no whistleblowers whispering in my ear...but as a way to
explain and illustrate the Motive Search
Process (MSP). In practice this particular Suspect Scenario is on my C-List...an
ABC Analysis being an extension of
the Pareto Principle where list
allocation criteria is action-oriented.
A common policy would be applied to
investigating C-List Suspects. A
fully resourced team would be set to work investigating each A-List Suspect while the investigative
focus for B-List Suspects would be to
assess whether to treat them as A-List
or C-List. These Desk Studies are similar to the Profiling
Approach used by Terrorism Prevention
and are unlikely to overlap with Police
Investigations. In general the police can be thought of as being interested
in the greasy rag while the Who? Whom?
Analysis is looking for the engineer...and the command structure behind
him.
A cursary glance at Conspiracy Theory Websites suggests that the Usual Suspects in any high profile assassination are Mossad and the CIA. But I tend not to put the Americans
and Israeli Governments very high on
my list. They both appear to have Assassination
Procedures in place.
But in general my sympathies are with the Israelis. I believe they weigh these
steps carefully. But the notion that an Israeli
Government Committee should sit around a polished cherry-wood conference
table in Tel Aviv and approve the
assassination of Anna Lindh because she was in the habit of criticising
I tend to put the Supra-Government Groups (SGG)...those who anoint governments...and Global Interest Groups (GIG) much higher on my list.
Governments are just one of many potential assassins. The
My Anna Lindh A- and B-Lists consist of
seven Supra-Government Groups and
three Global Interest Groups. Top of
the A-List is One World Order followed by Guns,
Nowadays the
http://williamshepherd.blog.co.uk/2006/08/14/saturday_12th_august~1037911
Monday
18th September 2006 - ws261
For the next
four years Fredrik Reinfeldt will be Prime Minister of Sweden with its
population of nine million. Yesterday the alliance of Reinfeldt’s Conservatives
with Liberals, Christian Democrats and Centre won 178 seats in the 349-seat Swedish Parliament putting
them 7-seats ahead of the Social
Democrat Alliance. The Social Democrats are still the largest party in the parliament with 35% of the vote but
Reinfeldt’s party…up from 15% in 2002 to an impressive 26%…is now vying for top
spot. Their victory was won in the Stockholm City Region which casts 1
in 5 of all Swedish votes. In
With Proportional
Representation, Minority Parties form alliances
with other Opposition Parties to gain power while a Majority
Alliance splits the opposition to stay in power. Reinfeldt succeeded where Göran
Persson failed. If Cameron Tories and the Hughes
LibDems formed an alliance against Brown’s New Labour for the 2009 Westminster
Elections David Cameron could well get a Reinfeldt Outcome under
PR…but First Past The Post is something
else.
English
Political Commentators regularly make extravagant ideological claims for
Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party. But the
electoral reality was always that when the Gang of Four split off from
the Labour Party and formed themselves into a new party any Conservative
Party could have strolled to electoral victory. 20-years later the new party
was taken over by the Liberal Party and ever
since, the Liberal Democrats have campaigned as Not
The Tories in Conservative Constituencies and Not
New Labour in Labour Constituencies. This works well
until you have to govern…which is now Reinfeldt’s problem. But there are
others.
Social
Democracy has ruled
However
Reinfeldt has two things going for him. Firstly