Under 80-talet var jag ansvarig för DN:s ledar- och debattsidor och hörde till ubåtstvivlarna. I en av mina artiklar heter det: ”Jag utgår ifrån att kommissionen och dess medhjälpare redovisar fakta korrekt och utvärderar enstaka händelser noggrant och kritiskt. Mina tvivel gäller sättet att summera indicier och foga samman rader av mer eller mindre osäkra iakttagelser till helhetsbilder.”

Det som blivit känt genom SVT:s ”Uppdrag granskning” 2007 och Mossbergs bok fanns inte i min föreställningsvärld, jag misstänkte inte svåra ämbetsbrott. Att höga militärer undanhöll regeringen bevisning av vikt för de frågor som skulle utredas – det får marken att gunga under fötterna.

Det var inte lite de ställde till med. Sverige gjorde bort sig, vår utrikespolitik var inte längre trovärdig. Ubåtstvivlaren Lennart Bodström försattes i en ohållbar situation som utrikesminister.

Av prestigeskäl eller oförmåga att ta till sig ny information har delar av det politiska etablissemanget hållit fast vid en felaktig version av händelserna – sådant är gift i samhällskroppen. Allt material, även det som militära chefer lyckats dölja för tidigare utredningar, borde öppnas för historisk forskning, avslutar Nycander. 



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Armed Israeli police close theatre on first night of Palestinian festival

Officers walk in to Palestinian National Theatre in east Jerusalem and order it to be closed on opening night of literary event

Armed Israeli police last night tried to halt the opening night of a prominent Palestinian literary festival in Jerusalem when they ordered a Palestinian theatre to close.

The week-long festival, supported by the British council and Unesco, has brought several high-profile international authors – among them Henning Mankell, Michael Palin and Ahdaf Soueif – on a speaking tour of Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Shortly before the opening event was due to begin, a squad of around a dozen Israeli border police walked into the Palestinian National Theatre, in east Jerusalem, and ordered it to be closed.

The police brought a letter from the Israeli interior ministry which said the event could not be held because it was a political activity connected to the Palestinian Authority.

Members of the audience and the eight speakers were ordered to leave, but the event was held several minutes later, on a smaller scale, in the garden of the nearby French Cultural Centre.

Israeli police were deployed on the street outside.

"We're so taken aback. It's is completely, completely independent," Egyptian novelist Soueif, who is chairing the Palestine Festival of Literature, said.

"I think it's very telling," she told the crowd at the French centre. "Our motto, which is taken from the late Edward Said, is to pit the power of culture against the culture of power."

Israel regularly prevents political Palestinian events in east Jerusalem, but has recently also started to clamp down on cultural events in an apparent attempt to extend control over the city.

The development comes at a time of growing international concern over the Israeli government's demolition of Palestinian homes and the continued growth of Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem.

In March, the Israeli authorities banned a series of Palestinian cultural events in Jerusalem, including a children's march, intended to mark the Arab League's designation of Jerusalem as the capital of Arab culture for this year.

Israel said the events breached its ban on Palestinian political activity.

Earlier this month, Israeli police closed down a Palestinian press centre that had been established in east Jerusalem for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI.

Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 war and later annexed it – a move not recognised by the international community.

Mankell, a Swedish crime novelist, told the crowd at Saturday's event: "Don't lose hope."

He compared the raid to life in South Africa under apartheid and added: "What really makes us human beings is our capacity for dialogue.

"The only way we can save ourselves finally in the end is the capacity for making dialogue with each other."

The festival will stage events in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and Jenin this week before returning to the same Palestinian theatre in east Jerusalem on Thursday night for a final event, although that also appears at risk of being closed.

The mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, has frequently dismissed criticism of Israeli policies in the city.

Last week, on the day Israel celebrated the 42nd anniversary of its capture of east Jerusalem, his office issued a statement describing criticism as "distorted and erroneous and accompanied by much disinformation and irresponsible provocation".

It said house demolition policies were implemented "without discrimination" in all parts of the city, and that Barkat was promoting construction and education in the east.

"Mayor Barkat sees great importance in raising the standard of living and the quality of life in the east of the city and this after many years of neglect," the statement said.

However, Rafiq Husseini, the chief of staff to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who was in last night's audience, was dismissive of the Israeli actions.

"It shows how the Israelis are not thinking, he said. "This is a cultural event. There is no terrorism, there is nobody shooting. It's just a cultural event.

"They are creating enemies for themselves."

guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media 2009

Åke Edwardson och förläggare Dan Israel har kommit överens om att Åke Edwardsons nästa bok ska komma ut på Leopard förlag.

- Cirkeln sluts, säger Åke Edwardson. ”Dan gav ut min första bok en gång i tiden och var också med om att initiera serien om Erik Winter. Vi har länge pratat om att om att jobba ihop och nu är det dags.”

- Vi är otroligt nöjda med att kunna knyta Åke till oss”, säger Dan Israel. Det ska bli enormt roligt att jobba ihop igen. Åke är en av Sveriges främsta författare, och behärskar alla genrer som han har visat med novellsamlingar som Genomresa, romaner som Jukebox eller böcker för unga läsare som den augustprisnominerade Samurajsommar. Åkes övergång till Leopard understryker ytterligare trenden att det främst är de små, oberoende förlagen som står för kvalitetsutgivningen här i landet.

Några pressröster om Vildsvinet:

Den ställer alla vanliga föreställningar på spel och är en utmärkt bok”
Magnus Utvik, Gomorron Sverige

”Renzo Aneröd skriver med underdogpatos snarare än moralism. Han går in i sina gestalter och tolkar drivkrafter och tumult inifrån. Det handlar om människor som genom utanförskap och marginalisering dras in i en svartvit värld av rädsla, hat och grupptryck.”
Aftonbladet

”Renzo Aneröd har skrivit en stark och enkel politisk roman.”
Dagens Nyheter

Vildsvinet publicerades i originalupplaga på Leopard och Pocketförlaget gav ut den som pocket 2007.