Monday, December 13, 2010

Suicide bomber in Sweden lived in Britain

This serves as another clue to how Britain's willing to allow terrorists to make it a hub for operations. From Reuters (via Jihad Watch):
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - British police were searching a house in southern England on Monday as part of investigations into two explosions in Stockholm which Swedish authorities said they were treating as an act of terrorism.[...]

Swedish daily Expressen said on Monday the dead man had planned to set off three devices, including one at the main railway station and one at a large department store.

The man was named on an intelligence website as Taymour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi who had studied in Britain. Police have not identified him.[...]

Following reports that the man had a Facebook entry and a profile on a Muslim dating website which said he had spent time in Britain, British police said they were examining a house in the town of Luton under the terrorism act. The house has been cordoned off.

"No arrests have been made and no hazardous materials found," a police statement said.[...]

The man had planned to blow up his car but also had 12 pipe bombs strapped to him and a bomb in a rucksack, it said.

"It is clear that he was trying to create as much chaos and hurt as many people as possible," Expressen quoted a police source as saying.
The mosque he went to in Luton claims they threw him out for his extremist views (also via Jihad Watch). But frankly, I don't buy it. The really sad part is that it's unlikely they'll arrest any suspects in this case. Even the Tories, alas, aren't particularly reliable.

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