And, can the UK do anything right? This guy studies there and he still can't detonate a bomb on time! I suppose we should be grateful for small mercies - and at least some Swedes may well have pulled their fingers from their ears (and other places too) and realised what's up in their country. Although I don't have any hope - reading the comment section of the article on a Swedish website made me laugh out loud. They are blaming mostly the Jews/Israel and/or the CIA and calling anyone who blames Islam, Xenophobic racists! Talk about stupid people! I don't have much hope for a country, where the enemy has exposed himself and yet they look the other way. Actually, that sounds just about right for Sweden! BTW - it was a CARTOON - you know, like a comic. You really don't have to take it that seriously!
Now he's alive......
Now he's dead...
An Islamic fundamentalist was radicalised in Britain before carrying out a suicide bombing on a busy street in Sweden.
Iraqi-born Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, 28, blew up his car, then himself, in the capital Stockholm.
He had spent much of the last decade in Luton – long known as a hotbed of terrorism – where he studied for a degree and continued living there with his wife and children.
The Bedfordshire town has a Muslim population of 20,000 and has been linked with a string of high-profile extremists.
Last year Muslim protesters disrupted a homecoming march of soldiers returning from Afghanistan.
Police were investigating Abdulwahab’s British connections last night. Neighbours in Luton suggested that his wife, who herself has fundamentalist views, and their children are still living there.
The involvement of a student from a British university in yet another terrorist incident will raise fresh questions about admissions to UK universities, and the radicalisation of Muslim students when studying in this country.
It is less than a year ago that a worldwide alert was sparked when former University College London student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, was arrested on suspicion of trying to blow up an aeroplane with explosives hidden in his underpants.
The latest bomber moved to Sweden with his family from Iraq when he was 11. He came to Britain in 2001 to study sports therapy at the University of Luton, now the University of Bedfordshire.
He moved back to Sweden more recently and is believed to have separated from his wife, but they have not divorced.
His Facebook page features an Islamic flag being raised over a world in flames. On the page, he says he is a member of the group Islamic Caliphate State, which seeks to establish Islamic rule worldwide and adds: ‘I’m a Muslim and I’m proud’.
On another website he is said to have pictured Tower Bridge engulfed by an inferno.
Terror came to usually peaceful Stockholm on Saturday afternoon, minutes after Abdulwahab – who was due to celebrate his 29th birthday today – sent a warning of an impending attack to a Swedish news agency and police.
The warning referred to the presence of 500 Swedish troops among the Allies in Afghanistan and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed drawn three years ago by Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks.
The warning email contained messages to the bomber’s family, one asking that his children were told ‘Daddy loves them’.
Immediately after the email arrived, Abdulwahab’s car burst into flames on a busy street in the city centre, with a series of explosions following from gas canisters stashed inside the vehicle.
Around ten minutes later Abdulwahab shouted in Arabic before detonating a pipe bomb which killed him and wounded two passers-by.
Tragedy was only narrowly avoided, as police are understood to have found five more bombs on Abdulwahab’s corpse which did not go off. He also wore a rucksack full of nails.
It was speculated that the car bomb was designed to attract police and crowds, who would have been killed in their scores if all the suicide bombs had gone off.
At a taxi office opposite the Luton flat where Abdulwahab is understood to have lived with his wife, employee Imran Khan, 31, said: ‘We used to see him all the time. He lived across the road with his wife, a chubby lady who wore a full veil that covered everything apart from her eyes.
‘He was really quiet and she wouldn’t say anything. I haven’t seen him here for a while but she’s still around with their two little kids.’
The woman believed to be Abdulwahab’s wife two years ago signed an online petition calling for the wearing of the veil to remain legal worldwide.
On a Muslim dating website Abdulwahab was searching for a second wife. His advert said ‘I am looking for a practising Muslim to join a lovely family and make it bigger.
‘In the future, I am looking for to move to an Arabic country and settle down there.’
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