Over the weekend, while the world was focusing on the threat of Ebola contagion in the US and around the globe, Sweden’s otherwise sleepy capital Stockholm found itself the location of a blitz military operation involving the Swedish Armed Forces, Navy, Army and Air Force, when late on Saturday, Swedish armed forces stepped up an operation — involving more than 200 men, stealth ships, minesweepers and helicopters — in an area about 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of the Swedish capital. The operation was initiated on Friday after the armed forces said they had been informed of a “man made object” in the water.
The HMS Visby combs the Stockholm archipelago on Sunday
as the military operation continues. Photo: Marko Säävälä/TT
According to the Local.se, officials denied they were “submarine hunting,” calling the mobilisation- one of the biggest, barring purely training exercises, since the Cold War – an “intelligence operation”.
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