Jan-Olof Bengtsson
Jan-Olof Bengtsson is a Swedish journalist with Kvällsposten in Malmö, Sweden.
Accredited
Bengtsson born April 30, 1952 covered the Middle East conflict 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. Among other assignments he participated in the Swedish Himalaya-expedition in 1981. He is accredited to the International Press Centre by the Danish ministry of foreign affairs.[1] He is now a political columnist of the Swedish daily Kvällsposten, Malmö, Sweden and are frequent contributor in other media including the capacity as moderator in different debates and arenas.
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.[2]
In Sweden's newspaper, iDAG,[3] 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. These articles subsequently formed the basis of one of the conspiracy theories surrounding Pan Am Flight 103.