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should the heads of secret services resign after terrorist attacks?

should the heads of secret services resign after terrorist attacks?

  • yes

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • no

    Votes: 4 66.7%
  • I don't care

    Votes: 1 16.7%

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    6

alanford

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do you think that the head of Swedish secret service should resign after the newest attack?
or if the same things happen in the USA, should the media and politicians demand the resignation of heads of secret services?


btw, Swedish secret service is called SÄPO and the head is Bengt Anders Ingvar Thornberg.

short history of attacks:

- The Malmö shootings were a string of attacks by serial shooter Peter Mangs in the southern Swedish city of Malmö between December 2009 and October 2010. The shooter apparently targeted people with dark skin and non-Swedish appearance. 15 people were shot in this period. The shooter was compared to the likes of John Ausonius, dubbed the "Laser man", who committed similar crimes in 1991–92, targeting eleven men of immigrant origin in the Stockholm and Uppsala area, killing one. Ausonius was from a German suffering for not being " original Swede", he colored hair in blue and bought blue contact lenses, to look Swedish and he hated immigrants, possibly to be more Swede.

- The 2011 Gothenburg terrorism plot was alleged to target art festival and Swedish artist Lars Vilks and thwarted by police. Four people were arrested, three charged, and all three suspects were acquitted.

- The 2015 Trollhättan school attack was carried out by 21-year-old Anton Lundin Pettersson, who killed two teachers and one student. The police described it as a hate crime with racist motives.

- In the 2016 Sweden terrorism plot Aydin Sevigin was convicted to carry out an ISIS-inspired suicide bombing on Swedish soil using a homemade pressure-cooker bomb.

- In the 2017 Stockholm attack a truck was rammed into a crowd in Stockholm, Sweden, and hit a department store.
 
I don't think so, no. The Stockholm beer truck rampage featured an attack on traffic pedestrians (soft targets).

There is no obvious method to prevent such unsophisticated, yet potentially deadly attacks (Nice, Berlin, London etc.).
 
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