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The DUKE
12-11-10, 07:47 PM
Deadly Stockholm blasts linked to Afghanistan

Swedish news agency, police receive email warning 10 minutes before explosions

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Fredrik Persson / EPA Police forensics experts examine the remains of a suspected suicide bomber in Central Stockholm on Saturday. The man was found lying dead after a loud explosion, with a bag allegedly containing a number of pipe bombs close by.

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STOCKHOLM — A car explosion and what appeared to be a suicide attack injured two people, killed the apparent bomber, and caused panic among Christmas shoppers in Stockholm Saturday.
The Swedish news agency TT said it had received an email warning with a threat to Sweden and its people ahead of the blasts. The agency said the threat was linked to Sweden's presence in Afghanistan, where it has a force of 500 soldiers, mainly in the north.
"Now your children, daughters and sisters shall die like our brothers and sisters and children are dying," the news agency quoted the e-mail as saying.
Police spokeswoman Petra Sjolander said a car exploded near Drottninggatan, a busy street in the center of the city. Shortly afterward, a second explosion was heard higher up on the same street, and a man was found injured on the ground. The man was later pronounced dead, Swedish authorities said.

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Two others were taken to the hospital with injuries, said Bengt Norberg, a rescue services spokesman.
Police were also investigating whether other, unexploded bombs were on the scene.

'Stupid support for the pig'

TT said the warning, which was also sent to Sweden's Security Police, was received 10 minutes before the blasts. The agency said the mail had sound files in both Swedish and Arabic attached.

The voice on the sound file addressed Sweden and the Swedish people and talked about Sweden's silence over the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed by artist Lars Vilks and Sweden's presence in Afghanistan, TT reported.
"Our actions will talk for themselves. As long as you do not end your war against Islam and humiliation of the prophet and your stupid support for the pig Vilks," TT quoted the man on the sound file as saying.
The man also urged all Muslims in Sweden to "stop sucking up to and degrading," reported The Local, Sweden's English news publication (http://www.thelocal.se/30776/20101211/). He concluded the message with yet another call to "all the mujahedeen" in Sweden and Europe.
"Now it’s time to act, don’t wait any longer. Fear no one, don’t fear prison, don’t fear death," according to the email stated, The Local reported.
Holiday shoppers
Swedish media reported scenes of panic in the busy Christmas shopping areas with people fleeing amidst smoke and the smell of explosives.
Sjolander said it was unclear what caused the second explosion but a police bomb squad has been sent to the site.
Another rescue services spokesman, Roger Sverndal said the car that exploded contained gas canisters.




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Gabriel Gabiro, a former AP staffer, was inside a watch store on the opposite side of the street from the second explosion and saw people running from the site.
"I saw some people crying, perhaps from the shock," he said. "There was a man lying on the ground with blood coming out in the area of his belly, and with his personal belongings scattered around him."
Gabiro said the blast was "quite loud" and he saw smoke coming from the area where the man was lying.
"It shook the store that I was in," he said of the blast. "Then there was smoke and gun powder coming into the store."
Sweden — which has so far been spared any large terrorist attacks — raised its terror threat alert level from low to elevated in October because of "a shift in activities" among Swedish-based groups that could be plotting attacks there.
The security police said then that the terrorism threat in Sweden remained low compared to that in other European countries, and no attack was imminent.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Sgt Leprechaun
12-11-10, 11:52 PM
Wonderful.

hbharrison
12-12-10, 12:30 AM
Yes, just wonderful.