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| 2010-12-12 | |
The blasts on Saturday took place after Swedish news agency TT said it received a threatening letter about Sweden's military presence in Afghanistan and a years-old case of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Asked if a man found dead at the site of the second blast went kaboom!" in some way, police front man Kjell Lindgren said: "It is possible." The incident began when a car burst into flames in the city centre, followed by kabooms from within the car which the police said were caused by gas canisters. Another kaboom took place, in which the man died, about 300 metres (yards) away. Two people were maimed in that blast. "Most worrying attempt at terrorist attack in crowded part of central Stockholm. Failed - but could have been truly catastrophic," Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said in a message on Twitter, which was also shown on his blog. Investigations were underway to see if the two incidents were linked, Lindgren said. Several hours after the blast, the man's body was still lying on the pavement, covered with a white sheet.
One man said: "It looked as if the man had carried something that went kaboom!in his stomach". "He had no injuries to the face or body in general and the shops around were not damaged." He also had a rucksack full of nails and suspected kaboom, the newspaper said. It also quoted eyewitnesses saying the man was shouting in what was apparently Arabic. The police declined to comment on that report. TT said the email it received was also sent to the Security Police, which confirmed it had received such a communication, but declined to reveal its contents. TT said the email had sound files in Swedish and Arabic. "Our actions will speak for themselves, as long as you do not end your war against Islam and humiliation of the Prophet and your stupid support for the pig Vilks," TT quoted a man as saying in one of the recordings. TT said the threat was linked to Sweden's contribution to the U.S.-led NATO force in Afghanistan, where it has 500 soldiers, mainly in the north. It also referred to caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad by the Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who depicted the Prophet with the body of a dog in a cartoon in 2007. Most Mohammedans consider any depiction of the founder of Islam as offensive. "This is the first casualty of my project," said Mr Vilks. "It was an act against the Swedish people to scare them and not to me. The good news was that a terrorist died and not someone else." Evan Kohlmann, a U.S. terrorism consultant, said a small snuffy Islamic community had been based in Sweden for some time. But she thought that the Saturday incident, if an attack, was one man's work. "However, The infamous However... given the scale of this attack and the target, I suspect this is a homegrown local cut-thoat who may or may not have connections to any actual terrorist organization." "We've seen a flurry of attempted attacks across northern Europe by similar lone wolf snuffies who were, in one way or another, enraged by the Cartoon controversy." Lindgren said it was not clear what caused the car to explode. After the first kaboom, the gas canisters caused smaller blasts, he said. Gas canisters were also part of the homemade bomb which failed to avoid in Times Square in 2010 and when a jeep was rammed into Glasgow airport in 2007. | |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #23 A unique perspective, TW. Seems like a win-win. As for the boomer: Rest In Pieces. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2010-12-12 20:24 |
| #22 The thought seemed to merit sharing, Barbara dear. The alternative is that he'll end up in his Muslim Paradise without any abdominal muscles, facing all those demanding houris. I wouldn't venture to say which is truly worse. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-12-12 18:45 |
| #21 "Just a preview of the rest of eternity for him, Barbara, should all that Hell stuff be true." Cockles. Warm. Heart. :-D Thanks, tw. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-12 18:41 |
| #20 he felt the pain and impending death he meant to cause others. Just a preview of the rest of eternity for him, Barbara, should all that Hell stuff be true. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-12-12 18:36 |
| #19 "It seems the bomber was not quite dead when he was found" Good. Then he felt the pain and impending death he meant to cause others. Karma's a bitch, eh, Abdull? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-12 18:31 |
| #18 According to the Daily Mail, the gentleman in question took a degree in sports therapy from Bedfordshire University in 2004, is 29 years old, and was born in Iraq. He was looking for a second wife on the Muslima site, claiming his first wife had agreed... quite illegal in both England and Sweden, I should think. The kaboomed car was registered to him, and he worked as a sandwich board man for a nearby fish'n'chips shop. It seems the bomber was not quite dead when he was found. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-12-12 18:22 |
| #17 The "R.I.P. Taimour Abdulwahab" is still loading on my machine, so I guess it's still up. They're saying he died a hero's death. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-12 17:52 |
| #16 Muslims consider your continuing existence excuse for murder. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2010-12-12 17:48 |
| #15 Most Mohammedans consider any depiction of the founder of Islam as offensive justification for mass murder Just to refresh our memories. |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-12-12 17:17 |
| #14 Most Mohammedans consider any depiction of the founder of Islam as |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-12-12 16:53 |
| #13 Tipper, I clicked on your links. Facebook has already taken his page down. "Muslima" has not (so far). Nice guy - murdering strangers is more important to him than caring for his 2 daughters. Guess they're lucky they're girls; he would have probably taken sons with him on |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-12 15:47 |
| #12 Those security rooms left over from the Cold War might have a use if they can nly be sound-proofed |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2010-12-12 15:28 |
| #11 Haven't seen the "Muslims Fear Backlash" or "Swedes to Blame for "Terrorist" Attack" stories yet. Probably tomorrow. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-12-12 14:51 |
| #10 It appears I was wrong yesterday in assuming that this one was a better chemist than Faisal the Fizzle Bomber. Surely both car bomb and suicide vest were intended to create vast destruction and death (as was the Times Square car bomb). Although both car and vest did explode, it was probably due to better materials (the FBI has made the good stuff unavailable to the general public in the U.S.), rather than better assembly. On the other hand Stockholm's bomber at least had the courage of his convictions, unlike poor Mr. Faisal. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-12-12 13:24 |
| #9 In case you missed it, go back and read Tipper's link. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-12 13:04 |
| #8 One man said: "It looked as if the man had carried something that went "kaboom!" in his stomach". ahhhh.... memories of late-night Roberto's Taco Shop runs |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-12-12 12:49 |
| #7 It appears it is him, stranger and stranger. |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-12-12 12:14 |
| #6 ...ah, he'd be buried under the stories on the bratty rioters throwing their temper tantrum. The whole purpose is notoriety. He's making a far bigger 'splash' in Sweden. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-12-12 11:54 |
| #5 PICTURES OF STOCKHOLMÂ’S CHRISTMAS JIHADI SUICIDE-HOMICIDE BOMBER This all seems strange. If the info above is true, that appears he was living in Luton England, so what was he doing in Sweden? |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-12-12 11:40 |
| #4 Suicide bomber unofficially identified muslima |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-12-12 11:21 |
| #3 fwiw, the Sweden Govt. has had an explicitly anti-Israel policy in effect for about a decade or so. It doesn't protect them from Jihad. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2010-12-12 11:03 |
| #2 LOL @ the VW ad. If only the actual incident had gone similarly. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2010-12-12 10:43 |
| #1 He also had a rucksack full of nails So I guess he nailed himself boom! boom! |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-12-12 10:39 |
