{"id":9503,"date":"2010-12-13T19:09:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9503"},"modified":"2010-12-14T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:02:29","slug":"stockholm-bomber-identity-is-revealed-13122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/stockholm-bomber-identity-is-revealed-13122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm bomber identity is revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>An Iraqi man who blew himself and shocked Sweden, identity is revealed. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Police in Sweden say they are “98% sure” that a man who blew himself up in Stockholm on Saturday is Middle East-born Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly.<\/p>\n

Chief Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said Abdaly had moved to Sweden in 1992. More recently he was living in the UK.<\/p>\n

But he said the body had not yet been formally identified by DNA or a close family member.<\/p>\n

Abdaly, 28, is believed to have died as he tried to set off a car bomb in a busy street. Two people were injured.<\/p>\n

Mr Lindstrand told a press conference in Stockholm that after interviewing witnesses, investigators now had “a slightly better picture of what happened”.<\/p>\n

When asked whether Abdaly had been correctly identified as the bomber in the media, he replied: “Yes”.<\/p>\n

“We have identified the man who blew himself up, to 98%,” he said.<\/p>\n

Media reports have said Abdaly was born in Iraq but this was not confirmed at the press conference.<\/p>\n

Mr Lindstrand said the bomber had been carrying a bomb belt and had probably intended to cause an explosion in the crowd at the main railway station or a city centre department store.<\/p>\n

“If it had all exploded at the same time it could have caused very serious damage,” he said.<\/p>\n

Swedish authorities: “We think we have the identity”
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\nAbdaly was also named as the registered owner of the car that exploded in a busy shopping street in the area of Drottninggatan at 1700 local time (1600 GMT) on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The second blast occurred 10 to 15 minutes later on a street about 300m (985ft) away.
\n‘Distorted view’<\/p>\n

On Monday, British police began searching a house in Luton, in Bedfordshire, north of London, which is believed to have belonged to Abdaly.<\/p>\n

It has emerged that Abdaly worshipped at the Luton Islamic Centre Mosque but left after other members accused him of having a “distorted view” of Islam.<\/p>\n

A Swedish news agency has released an audio recording apparently made by Abdaly, in which he says oppression against Muslims in Europe will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n

He refers to drawings of the prophet Muhammad and to the presence of foreign soldiers – including Swedes – in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

If confirmed as a suicide bombing, the attack would be the first of its kind in Sweden.<\/p>\n

Still image taken from a video footage shows firefighters attempting to put out the fire on a car blown up in Stockholm, 11 December 2010.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said at the weekend that the attacks were unacceptable in Sweden’s “open society”, which he said was a democracy that respected different cultures.<\/p>\n

Abdaly was not previously known to the Swedish authorities.
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\nThe BBC’s Security Correspondent Nick Childs says investigators will be trying to determine what links he may have had with the UK.<\/p>\n

The blast appears to have been of the same relatively unsophisticated nature as recent attempted attacks in New York, Glasgow and London, says our correspondent.<\/p>\n

Such attacks, carried out by individuals, are especially hard for the security agencies to trace and but are an increasing cause for concern, he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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