UK suspect 'financier' behind Stockholm bomb
Published: 11 Mar 11 08:45 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/32526/20110311/
The man who is being held in Glasgow on suspicion of being an accomplice in a suicide bombing in Stockholm in December is thought to have been the financier behind the failed attack, according to the Glasgow Herald daily.
- 'Stockholm bomber was alone': Swedish police (9 Mar 11)
- Man held in the UK over Stockholm suicide bomb (8 Mar 11)
- No sign Stockholm bomber had help: Säpo (10 Feb 11)
The man was arrested in a pre-dawn raid in the Whiteich area of Glasgow on Tuesday and is being held at Govan police station.
His identity remains unconfirmed with reports suggesting that he was nursing student at North Glasgow College rejected by the college, the newspaper reported.
The Swedish Security Service and the UK's MI5 are reported to be assisting the police with their enquiries. According to UK anti-terror laws the police are able to detain the man for questioning without charge for 14 days.
Taimour Abdulwahab, a Swedish citizen who lived in the British town of Luton with his wife and three children, narrowly missed wreaking carnage among Christmas shoppers when he blew himself up next to Stockholm's busiest pedestrian street on December 11th.
He was carrying a cocktail of explosives and is believed to have mistakenly set off a small explosion that killed him before he could carry out what appears to have been a mission to kill "as many people as possible," a Swedish prosecutor said days after the attack.
An Islamist website, Shumukh al-Islam, posted a purported will by Abdulwahab which said he was fulfilling a threat by Al-Qaeda in Iraq to attack Sweden.
Shortly before the explosions, Säpo and the TT news agency received an email with audio files in which Abdulwahab is heard telling "all hidden mujahedeen in Europe, and especially in Sweden, it is now the time to fight back."
The attack was the first suicide bombing on Swedish soil.
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Do you have any idea how idiotic that sounds?
As for someone from Luton meeting up with someone from Glasgow, it must have been by plane. It would have cost more for a train fare from Luton to Glasgow, than to buy the bomb making equipment.
PS: Upon reading this story, I could only think about an islamic version of Rab C. Nesbitt giving instructions on the back of a beer mat and a loan of a fiver as well as a couple of beers in the pub, to pull this attack of.
These people aren't what most people would consider to be brilliant...
Evidently you don't have much idea about how Islamic terrorists networks work or how they connect via the web etc. As for the inane comment about the train fare or someone from Glascow meeting someone from Luton ever heard of the internet and money transfers etc.
Just what don't you understand about the description of the detained guy as the "financier" of the plot.
If, and I repeat, if true this makes Sapo look really silly with their comment earlier this week that he acted alone.
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So besides th WikiLeaks fiasco, we now have a Islamic terrorist who acted alone, but was financed by outside money and internet instructions.
Huhhhh?
Sweden is really becoming a world laughing stock! Are honesty, fairness, truth, & justice foreign concepts to Swedish government and its law/justice system?
Most people with common sense know the score.