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Police detain Ikea blast suspects

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Two men suspected of masterminding a series of bomb blasts at several European stores of Swedish furniture giant Ikea from May to September have been detained in Poland, local media said Friday.

The explosions are believed to have been attempts at blackmail.

"Both detained men are 39 years old. One of them, who plotted the crime, Adam K., is well-educated, worked in corporations. The other, Mikolaj G., had been linked to drug crimes in the past," Poland's RMF commercial radio reported.

Contacted by AFP Friday, Polish police confirmed they were "taking action in connection with the case", but refused to give further details about the investigation.

According to RMF, police were also looking for a third suspect - likely the bomb maker - and had confiscated evidence including laptops and mobile phones.

Booby-trapped alarm clocks blew up at Ikea stores in Belgium, France and the Netherlands on May 30, while a blast in the kitchen equipment department of a store in Dresden, Germany, reportedly left two customers needing hospital treatment on June 10.

On September 2, police evacuated two stores in the Czech Republic defusing
a booby-trapped device found near one of them.

AFP/The Local (news@thelocal.se)

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01:17 October 9, 2011 by shahislam
The Greatness of the West: 1 Pre-meditated murderer of 80 lives still alive in the West and 8 needy thieves, earning not enough as foreign workers in a richest Country to became accidental killers and die in unimaginable brutal ways in the East.

Recently, one Norwegian killer in a pre-planned way killed 80 and probably won't receive even suspended death penalty in the World Class generous atmosphere of the Western Justice System and in Super rich: Saudi Arabia, 8 poor foreign workers from Bangladesh (with insufficient wages (e.g. US$ 5 to $10 a day for 12 hours of hard laboring job) have been murdered openly by autocratic order of a non-benevolent king in this modern, globally awakened time: in a primitive, brutal, barbarian style as a punishment for accidental killing of one!

If, it is not for sharing profiteering fortune of artificially raised oil-price money, then, non-violent removal of only a few guys in business of politics of the West would also force the brutal ruler-ships to change their inhuman policies of the old or expedite the removals of the 'Out of date': opportunist guys' or king's businesses of terrorism for it's own comfort to remain in the power vacuum, historically unnoticed by the majority of the then old-world and not ever claimed by wise guys like evolved most intelligent men of this 21st Century Generation.

The evidences of these types of heinous acts (Just like Assad's of Syria; for personal enjoyment of hereditary power, in old styled form of politics, to suppress awareness of true justice by brutal treatments for creating fear in isolated portion of the collective global Public) that are currently taking place in this rapidly growing digital communication technology and time are now invincible and not subject to procedural destruction anymore, therefore, to the surprise of the perpetrators, the painful memories shall never be wiped out! (All the credits, eternally go to the neutral wise-understanding of the region-less Creator of Cosmos).

The Bangladeshi heads in power, just like money hungry mongers of Pakistan, India, Syria, Bahrain, Nigeria, Somalia, Iran, North Korea, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela etc. neither have enough intelligence (because they are elected to represent ignorance of majority) nor any idea about how to join the emerging new body of honest politicians in the West for help create a one standard Global justice system for aiding Humanity's positive side for a possible new peaceful world where each hard-working human on all corners of this Earth can enjoy own life with a "Minimum Standard of living (Examples, before the Global Public already set by the Western Good Governments)" with the help of a Unbiased Super leadership or power like USA / UN.

Of-course there will be fights (with amended policies of International Trades and money) but not with mankind killing war machines anymore:
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