Stieg Larsson was in Eritrea in 1977!

Ever read, or watched, ‘The girl with the dragon tattoo’?

Bizarrely, the man who wrote it was in Eritrea during the war of independence.

Larsson spent part of 1977 in the country, training a squad of “female Eritrean People’s Liberation Front guerrillas” in the use of grenade launchers.  

Wikipedia reports that he was forced to abandon the work due to having contracted a kidney disease, but doesn’t relate why he was an expert in the use of grenade launchers, or why he was exclusively training women.


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