The Swedish Foreign Secretary Anna Lindh was assassinated on the second anniversary of 9/11 in September 2003 prompting an exchange of e-mails about her murder with Boudewijn Wegerif in the What Matters Programme at Folkhögskola Vardingeby in Sweden.

Dr Aidan Rankin…a regular contributor to the Conservative Party’s Salisbury Review responded to the exchange like this. ‘A strange and disturbing development in Sweden, I agree. I am copying you an email to a Danish friend…Luise Hemmer…earlier today. She was involved in the anti-euro campaign there and comes from a green-left background…Peoples Movement Against the EU’. Here is Aidan’s e-mail to Luise.

‘Your words confirm my thoughts…and suspicions…absolutely. What a strange and sad turn of events. There seems to be an unexpected dark side to Swedish Political Life. It is surely unusual for a peaceful, prosperous and apparently stable nation to have two major political assassinations within two decades. Is this a manifestation of what might be called the Ingmar Bergman side of the national temperament?’ Interesting to have seen Luise’s e-mail.

In the United States…with its Christian Fundamentalism and historical memory of the demonising of Olof Palme’s principled opposition to the Vietnam War in the Nixon Years…many would have been struck with the same thought. So I forwarded Aidan’s e-mail to Tom Greco in Tucson Arizona by way of an afterthought to our earlier exchange on New Labour & The British-American Project. I prefaced it with these remarks.

‘I don't go along with Aidan. There are three bunches of cowboys with assassination as sanctioned policy when their interests are threatened. Always as a last resort...but the need for last resorts seems to be escalating exponentially of late.’ This is how I listed them:

1. NeoCons and their global hegemony agenda…CIA clandestine;
2. Brussels and the British American Project and their Euro-fascist agenda…probably mercenaries;
3. Israel and their survival…Mossad.’

Adding for good measure that ‘Anna Lindh, David Kelly etc. ran foul of one or other somewhere along the line and had to go. Still can't believe that intelligent people can come up with such psychobabble.’

A day after these exchanges I spent a few hours at my desk drafting a number of scenarios for the Anna Lindh Assassination. My Middle East one included a posting from a website providing ‘noteworthy news items related to Europe and its relation to the global currency markets, economic stability and Middle East turmoil.’ I included web references to Anna Lindh’s Human Rights Agenda in the Middle East. Here is my draft summary…dated 13/9-2003.

‘Lindh advocated greater respect for international law and human rights in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, criticising the Ariel Sharon Government and condemning Palestine Suicide Bombings as ‘atrocities’.

In a speech on 30th January 2003 she had called on Israel to ‘end the occupation, give up settlements, and agree on a pragmatic solution to Jerusalem’ and on the Palestinians to ‘do everything in their power to stop the terrorist acts and take legal measures against those responsible’ and to ‘produce reform, for security, but also for democracy and human rights’.

Despite this even-handedness the Sharon people regarded Anna Lindh as very pro-Arafat. ‘Prime Minister Sharon was elected for his promise to increase security,’ she had said in a recent speech. ‘Instead the level of confrontation has been raised and the military effort increased as preparedness to enter the area under Palestinian control and attack Syrian targets in Lebanon demonstrated.’

Sharon’s people would have been aware that she was tipped to take over as Sweden's Prime Minister if Göran Persson’s resigned in the wake of a landslide victory for the No to the Euro Campaign in the Swedish Referendum…the outcome the pollsters were predicting for 14th September…’

Because Lindh was publicly critical of Israel, there are those who suspect an Israeli Assassination Squad. Two months ago I remarked that Conspiracy Theorists need to discriminate between the State of Israel, American Jewry, the Jewish Diaspora, Zionists and International Jewish Finance…not least because of the use of the Protocol of the Elders of Zion by the Nazis to whip up Jew Hatred in the 1930s. My analysis concerns itself with the State of Israel.

Jews are over-sensitive to criticism from the Goyim and routinely over-react with accusations of anti-Semitism. But by English Standards this is equally true of the Moslem World…where threats of Fatwas are wielded in much the same way.

Still you have to be pretty paranoid to believe Mossad would assassinate leading politicians on the instructions of the Israeli Cabinet just because they are critical of some aspect of Israeli Government Policy. The people who need to fear Mossad Hit Squads are terrorists and assassins...not European and American Politicians.

Another reason to doubt involvement of state operatives like Mossad is because such agencies have far subtler techniques than frenzied stabbings in department stores. There are internet claims that Mossad was beefed up in January 2003 for global assassinations. But as Israeli Whistleblowers end up in Solitary Confinement for decades only a very foolish person would leak such trivial information.

So unless you are prepared to postulate a very complicated game of bluff and double bluff Anna Lindh’s killing is too low-tech for the Israeli State. Rogue elements are always possible. But these are more likely to come from the other four Jewish players on the global stage.