Details unveiled about terrorist in Sweden
Posted December 13, 2010 12:38 pm.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Police unveiled more information about 28-year-old suicide bomber, Taimour Abdulwahab, who killed himself in Stockholm carrying three sets of bombs.
He was reported to have lived in Britain for the past 10 years after studying in Sweden. His British neighbors said that he seemed like a quiet family man.
“My sister phoned me and told me, and I was very shocked. I came home and I saw the media rant,” said one neighbor.
Swedish Police said Abdulwahab had three sets of bombs, but only two detonated, injuring two innocent people and killing himself.
Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said that parts of the explosives probably detonated by mistake before Abdulwahab reached his final destination.
He said Abdulwahab had bombs strapped to his body, in a backpack, and also carried, “something that looked like a pressure-cooker.”
“He was well-equipped with bomb material, so I guess it isn’t a too daring guess to say he was on his way to a place where there were as many people as possible, maybe the central station, maybe Ahlens (nearby subway station and department store),” Lindstrand said.
Abdulwahab was born in the Middle East, but had been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said he was unknown to Swedish security police before the blast because he had lived in Britain for the past 10 years and was only in Sweden to celebrate his father’s birthday.
Moments before the bombing an audio file was sent through email to security police and Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå, the Swedish news agency.
A man’s voice in the audio said, because of Sweden’s silence toward all this, “So will your children, daughters, brothers and sisters die, like our brothers, sister and children die.”
“Now the Islamic state has been created. We now exist here in Europe and in Sweden. We are a reality,” the man’s voice said. “I don’t want to say more about this. Our actions will speak for themselves.”
