Fake bomb empties Stockholm metro station
Published: 24 Dec 10 11:14 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/31054/20101224/
The Kungsträdsgården metro station in Stockholm was evacuated on Thursday night after a train driver alerted authorities to a suspicious package.
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Authorities were on high alert as the incident occurred less than two weeks after the country's first suicide bombing.
"It looked like a real bomb. Someone made it to frighten people," said Stockholm police spokesman Henrik Billestam.
Police described the packet as a object about the size of a milk carton, wrapped with silver adhesive tape with cables connected to a mobile phone.
On Thursday night police completely evacuated the Kungsträdsgården metro station and sent in deminers after a train driver alerted authorities to the possible threat.
The metro station is close to the seat of government in the Swedish capital.
Sweden has been on alert since December 11 when a suicide bomber, strongly believed to be Taimour Abdulwahab, first blew up his car and later himself near a crowded pedestrian street in central Stockholm.
He was carrying a cocktail of explosives and police suspect he may have left the crowd of Christmas shoppers due to a problem with the bombs when he mistakenly set off a small charge while standing in an empty side-street.
The bomber was the only person to die in the attack, but two people were slightly injured when his car exploded minutes earlier about 300 metres away.
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Yep, it has to be them. It cant be a bunch of morons or kids with too much time on their hands...
SD supporters ARE a bunch of morons or kids with too much time on their hands.
Must have been SD behind the December 11th bombing too. The rudimentary nature of this makes me think it is a group of kids that thought it would be funny.
I apologize for the bad-mouthing I did in my post I ACTUALLY posted a constructive and very enlightening and intelligent post prior to that one, BUT apparently waxing intelligent is not allowed- it was removed...I only wrote this to try to explore the boundaries of allowance...needless to say I am appalled...at the frat boy mentality fostered on this site.
Ravioli, I am aware of the same info as you with regards to the Sweden Democrats. What I do know that perhaps you may not...1) the extreme left (Social Democrats) in this country allied themselves with NASI Germany and Hitler, in word and in deed, expressly against Britain and the U.S. and 2) the very same tactics, slogans and people the left cites in this country they do in the U.S. against any Republican, but most especially against the Tea Party people.
By all accounts to the uneducated in the U.S. and outside the U.S. would think that the GOP and the Tea Party are horrible racists who want to destroy the world and build it up in their own image. The more dangerous a group like the Sweden Democrats or the Tea Party are to the left, especially the extreme left the more loud they are and more horrible their opponent is. This is a standard of Marxism like tactics that all communists, socialists, and their fellows on the left employ from center-left all the way to the left fringes to the leftist anarchists.
Don't assume that someone or some organzation is evil and what their oppponent says they are until you do your homework.
Good Luck to ya!