Jan-Olof Bengtsson

Jan-Olof Bengtsson is a Swedish journalist with Kvällsposten in Malmö, Sweden.

Accredited

Bengtsson born April 30, 1952 is accredited to the "International Press Centre" by the Danish ministry of foreign affairs. [ [http://www.ipc.um.dk/en/menu/MediaRepresentatives/MediaRepresentativesCoveringDenmarkSortedByCountryOfOrigin/Sweden/ Press accreditation in Denmark] ] He is a political editor of the Swedish daily Kvällsposten, Malmö, Sweden.

Featured articles

Bengtsson has produced many featured articles, but is best known for his coverage of Turkey's invasion of Cyprus and his coining of "ghost town" to describe Famagusta in 1974. [ [http://www.inhostage.com/html.html Featured articles by Jan-Olof Bengtsson] ]

In Sweden's newspaper, "iDAG", [ [http://www.svd.se/idag Website of Swedish newspaper "iDAG"] ] Bengtsson wrote a series of three articles in March 1990 about UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, who died when Pan Am Flight 103 was sabotaged over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988.

The articles alleged Carlsson had been persuaded by apartheid South Africa into joining PA 103 at the last minute at Heathrow, instead of taking a flight, as intended, direct from Brussels to New York.Fact|date=January 2008 These articles subsequently formed the basis of one of the conspiracy theories surrounding Pan Am Flight 103.

References

External links

* [http://www.ipc.um.dk/en/menu/MediaRepresentatives/MediaRepresentativesCoveringDenmarkSortedByCountryOfOrigin/Sweden/ International Press Centre]
* [http://www.inhostage.com/html.html Famagusta, "ghost town"]