Mass Shooting In Sweden

The recent mass shooting in Sweden is a reminder that the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme has never been solved. The following is about former U.S. President Richard Nixon and, although it might have nothing to do with it, I have never seen this pointed out.

Richard Nixon was the U.S. President that resigned over the Watergate Scandal and was known for making a list of his enemies. I have noticed something for conspiracy theorists that I cannot see has ever been pointed out.

From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s there were three assassinations of national leaders while they were in office. The assassinations are either unsolved or, if it is known who did it, it isn't known what their motive was.

Faisal was a popular King of Saudi Arabia. He was so well-liked in Pakistan that a city was renamed Faisalabad for him. In 1975, King Faisal was assassinated by his nephew, but it is not known why.

Omar Torrijos was the "maximum leader" of Panama, who died in a mysterious 1981 plane crash. It was speculated widely from the beginning that the U.S. was behind the crash.

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death while walking on a Stockholm street with his wife in 1986. This has baffled the world ever since. It was recently announced that Swedish police have reason to believe that it was a now-deceased man who did it, but the motive remains a mystery.

These assassinations took place in the far corners of the world and couldn't possibly have anything to do with each other. Or could they? What I notice is that all three of these leaders had fallen afoul of U.S. President Richard Nixon, who was known to keep a list of his enemies. Although his enemies tended to be domestic, rather than foreign, and none of these assassinated leaders had been on the list.

Nixon resigned the presidency in 1974 and the assassinations began the year after that.

In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Nixon supported Israel against it's Arab enemies. Saudi King Faisal responded by cutting off America's oil supply, in what became known as the Arab Oil Embargo. I remember going to school in the dark because the clocks had been changed in an effort to save energy. When King Faisal's nephew assassinated him, the nephew had just returned from the U.S.

Panama's Omar Torrijos must have been anathema to Nixon. The two came to power at around the same time. Torrijos was a leftward proponent of land redistribution and was an ally of Chile's Salvador Allende, who Nixon had gotten overthrown and killed in a 1973 coup. He continuously demanded that the U.S. relinquish control of the Panama Canal. He was a supporter of Communist Cuba and Communist insurgencies in Central America. It has long been speculated that the U.S. was behind the mysterious plane crash that killed him.

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme had been so relentlessly critical of America's war in Vietnam that Richard Nixon broke diplomatic relations with Sweden.

I will leave it up to conspiracy theorists to decide if these mystifying assassinations have anything to do with the animosity of Richard Nixon to all three of them. I find this to be very interesting and cannot see that it has ever been pointed out before.