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A Good Lindh Falls

Matt Welch | 9.11.2003 12:54 PM

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Anna Lindh, the popular Swedish foreign minister, has been stabbed to death by an unknown assailant. Lindh had been leading the Swedish government's "yes" campaign for an upcoming referendum on joining the Euro. Link via Tim Blair.

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  1. Anonymous   22 years ago

    Anna, John Walker.... you just can't trust those Lindh's.

  2. Guns   22 years ago

    Knives kill people. Ban the knives.

  3. Sir Real   22 years ago

    Anna and Pim-

    What is GOING ON in politics over there these days?

    *use of tragedy to hammer pet peeve goes here

  4. Kevin Carson   22 years ago

    "Good"?!! If she was leading a campaign to join the Euro, she should've been in Gitmo.

  5. Ray   22 years ago

    One of the plusses to gun violence is that the typical bullet wound doesn't hurt near as bad as multiple stabs to the liver with a sharp insturment.

  6. david f   22 years ago

    olaf palme's murder in feb of 86 still rears its head in swedish media life. this will probably do the same. it's awfully sad...

    and a lot of eurolefties are taking some schadenfreude in calling the assassin/murderer/ coward-asshole "a right wing, anti euro" person. they now have their balance to Pim Fortyn's murder by a lefty (with due respect to our friend, Lefty).

    still, the EU sucks and should be stopped...

    drf

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