U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012.  REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov  (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly over the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan as part of the 25th annual Fleet Week celebration in New York, May 23, 2012.  REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Saab CEO says external firms have shown interest

TROLLHATTAN, Sweden | Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:46am EST

TROLLHATTAN, Sweden (Reuters) - Saab Automobile's top executive said on Friday several undisclosed companies had expressed interest in General Motors' loss-making Swedish carmaker.

"There have been some external companies that have shown interest," Saab Chief Executive Jan-Ake Jonsson told Reuters on the sidelines of a news conference. He declined to comment on who the interested parties were or on how may they were.

He also said that creating a separate operation consisting of Saab and German peer Opel, also part of the GM group, had not been discussed in the current reshaping of the firm.

"Opel and Saab are an integrated part of General Motors. But to create a separate unit of Opel and Saab has not been discussed," he said.

(Reporting by Veronica Ek; writing by Niklas Pollard)

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