Jan-Olof Bengtsson is a Swedish journalist and political columnist in different media. He was born on 30 April 1952 and lives in

Malmö Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, sixth-largest city in Nordic countries, the Nordic region. Located on ...

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and in France.

Accredited

Bengtsson covered the Middle East conflict in Israel and Lebanon during the early eighties as correspondent. He has also been European correspondent and in that capacity covered European Affairs and EU-related material for several years with base in Brussels and Strasbourg. Among other assignments he participated in the Swedish Himalaya-expedition in Nepal in 1981. He is accredited to the ''International Press Centre'' by the Danish ministry of foreign affairs and a member of the Swedish Union of Journalists . Until 2011 he worked as political columnist of the Swedish daily

Kvällsposten (''The Express'') is one of two nationwide evening List of Swedish newspapers, newspapers in Sweden. Describing itself as independent liberal, was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and its slogans are "it stings" or " to your rescue". The ...

. Now he is a frequent contributor in other different media as political columnist including the capacity as moderator in debates, mediastrategist and writer.

Featured articles

Bengtsson has produced many featured articles, but is best known for his coverage of

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's invasion of

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and his coining of "ghost town" to describe

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in 1974. In Sweden's newspaper, '' iDAG'',Website of Swedish newspaper ''iDAG''
/ref> Bengtsson wrote a series of three articles in March 1990 about UN Commissioner for

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, who died when

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was sabotaged over

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on 21 December 1988. The articles alleged Carlsson had been persuaded by

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into joining PA 103 at the last minute at

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, instead of taking a flight, as intended, direct from

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. These articles subsequently formed the basis of one of the conspiracy theories surrounding Pan Am Flight 103.

References

External links

International Press Centre
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