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BBC reports one person has been killed and two others injured as two explosions rocked the centre Stockholm, the Swedish capital.
Richard :munchin
Stockholm Blasts Kill One And Injures Two
BBC, 11 Dec 2010
A car blew up near the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan, and another explosion hit nearby minutes later.
A man's body was discovered after the second blast.
A police spokeswoman, Petra Sjolander, said the car contained gas canisters and that the cause of the explosions was being investigated.
She said the car caught fire "following a series of explosions which could be those of gas canisters" inside the vehicle.
Ms Sjolander said it was unclear if the two blasts were linked.
"I can't confirm that the death is linked to the car explosion, but I can't rule it out either," AFP news agency quoted her as saying.
The identities of the victims have not been released.
A former employee of the Associated Press news agency, Gabriel Gabiro, was close to the second blast.
"I saw some people crying, perhaps from the shock," he told the agency.
"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."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11977524
From the AP:
...Ten minutes before the blasts, Swedish news agency TT received an e-mail saying "the time has come to take action."
According to the news agency, the e-mail referred to Sweden's silence surrounding artist Lars Vilk's drawing of Muhammad as a dog and its soldiers in Afghanistan.
"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 said they were aware of the e-mail, which had also been addressed to Sweden's security police, but couldn't immediately confirm a link to the explosions...
Link (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/11/car-explodes-central-stockholm-injured/)
Sweden just saw an unintended consequence of their immigration policy. I would guess it won't be the last such event.
Completely rhetorical question: What does a diverse society, one which has embraced diversity strongly, do when an element of that society turns on the other elements? Is this analogous to cancer? Is this a case where the society must either remove the cancer cells or face death? Or is there a more apt analogy?
For now, I suppose everyone will hold their breath and hope it is an isolated incident. We shall see, I guess.
"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."
Know Islam, No Peace. No Islam, Know Peace. :munchin
A man was found dead at the place of the second explosion . According to news agency TT the police assumes that the man was not damaged in the car explosion, but that he somehow blasted himself.
Shouted in Arabic
Police bomb technicians examined the dead man's bag by using a bomb robot. Radiographs show that it contained a large quantity of nails and an unknown substance which is suspected to be explosives.
Source: http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=6412
ETA
It appears he didn't act alone..
Source: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article8266091.ab
The Sheeple are blind and mute and can not hear well,, or at least thats what the EU MSM wants..
READ THE LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE,,
Das Spiegel,, has not one word about the suicide bomber!!!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/
The FT mentions Stockholm bomber,, at the bottom of the page!!
http://www.ft.com/intl/global-economy
Do you think the EU has a problem???
:munchin
Do you think the EU has a problem???
:munchin
Other than demographic and economic? :D
According to Taimour Abdulwahab’s (Al-Abdaly) Facebook profile, if indeed he’s the guy, his favorites are “Sheikh Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi” from Jordan, and the “Islamic Caliphate State”
“… the police assume that the attacker detonated the car, which was filled with gas canisters, in order to attract police and emergency personnel…”
Good thing allah wasn’t willing….,judging from the crowds in the video clips available, if he had sploded as planned, quite a few folks would have been injured.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b6ib7hT_LY
Source: http://www.allah.eu/allah/sweden-suicide-bomber-unofficially-identified-update-bomber-signed-email-update-axe-man-arrested.html
ETA > http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Taimour-Al-Abdaly/1015556356
The Sheeple are blind and mute and can not hear well,, or at least thats what the EU MSM wants..
READ THE LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE,,
Das Spiegel,, has not one word about the suicide bomber!!!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/
The FT mentions Stockholm bomber,, at the bottom of the page!!
http://www.ft.com/intl/global-economy
Do you think the EU has a problem???
:munchin
Sir,
to be fair, from what I can tell, every major news outlet in Europe has been covering this story, including Der Spiegel.
The swedes were lucky that this was yet another case of an incompetent suicide bomber; this could have been far worse.
The Sheeple are blind and mute and can not hear well,, or at least thats what the EU MSM wants..
READ THE LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE,,
Das Spiegel,, has not one word about the suicide bomber!!!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/
The FT mentions Stockholm bomber,, at the bottom of the page!!
http://www.ft.com/intl/global-economy
Do you think the EU has a problem???
:munchin
FWIW - the EU, like every other region, has many problems...but it might do well to consider that:
Der Spiegel is a weekly similar to Time and Financial Times is primarily a business publication whose focus is financial matters and is only published M-Sa (which means it won't have full-story coverage of something that occurs like this one did until its Monday edition).
The reporting in the Euro-MSM (eg, The Times, The Telegraph, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Le Figaro, El Pai's, SuddeutscheZeitung, Corriere dela Sera, etc) would be similar to ours in the NYT, LA Times, etc.
Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
SdZ http://www.sueddeutsche.de/
Le Figaro http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/
El Pai's http://www.elpais.com/global/
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung http://www.faz.net/s/homepage.html
Corriere dela Sera http://www.corriere.it/
An olde 48C just sayin'...;)
Richard :munchin
Sir,
to be fair, from what I can tell, every major news outlet in Europe has been covering this story, including Der Spiegel.
The swedes were lucky that this was yet another case of an incompetent suicide bomber; this could have been far worse.
Not the suicide aspect that pisses me off, incompetent or no.
It appears Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly became a devout practitioner of Islam in Luton where he was schooled as a Physical Therapist, and he was associated with the "Lions of Luton"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxSseM-wkbA
Source: http://lionheartuk.blogspot.com/2010/12/swedish-suicide-bomber-from-luton.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337930/Suicide-bomber-died-Stockholm-terrorist-blasts-studied-British-university.html
ETA, Luton has a long history of Islamic Jihad….., I’m curious if Abu Hamza was Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly’s Imam ?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wLbGahoNd0
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh59sciFUmI
:munchin
And so it goes...
Richard :munchin
Terror Attacks Force Sweden to Confront Security vs. Liberty Dilemma
Time, 12 Dec 2010
Anna Eriksson, a 36-year-old Stockholm schoolteacher and the epitome of this famously functional city's elegant, prosperous and confident professional middle class, was about to enter a subway station on Sunday when she did something she never imagined doing in her hometown: she hesitated. A day earlier, two explosions shook Stockholm's nearby shopping district in what appears to be the first suicide-terrorism attack in the country's history. Eriksson was unsettled. "We are not used to feeling vulnerable," she explains. "I know things like this happen, but I never thought it could happen here."
This weekend, cozy, comfortable Sweden received a brutal reminder that it is both a participant and a target in the war against terrorism. On Sunday, the country's domestic intelligence service announced that it was treating two explosions — one that killed a presumptive suicide bomber, and a car bomb that injured two people — as "an act of terrorism." Minutes before the detonations, Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyra received an e-mail that was also addressed to the police that promised retribution for Sweden's decision to send a 500-strong military contingent to Afghanistan and for its failure to condemn cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that were drawn by the Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
Authorities refused to comment on press reports naming a 29-year-old, Iraqi-born Swede as the perpetrator, nor is it known if the explosions were the work of a single individual or a terrorist cell. But already the incident has raised an uncomfortable question for a country that prides itself on open democracy: Can Sweden continue to guard civil liberties while meeting 21st century security threats? In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. Congress passed the Patriot Act, which many branded an infringement of civil liberties. And Britain, responding to its own terrorism threat, has expanded police powers to undertake spot searches of pedestrians, set up extensive video-surveillance networks and extend the period for which suspects can be detained without charge. Now Sweden, too, may face the dilemma of balancing individual liberty with collective security.
On Sunday, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt anticipated this question in a radio interview in which he reminded Swedes that "Sweden is an open society with an open tradition. It's important to remember on a day like this that this is how Sweden is." That may be true, but the country has also undergone profound changes in recent years that have placed new strains on its tradition for consensual, enlightened politics. The country has absorbed large numbers of refugees since the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, boosting the number of Muslim immigrants to about 5% of Sweden's 9.3 million people. The resulting backlash saw the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats Party shock the country in September's election by winning 20 seats in Parliament. Sweden's self-image as a haven from global upheaval — the country never joined NATO, and remained neutral during WWII — has also been challenged by its participation in the Afghanistan war, revelations that two Swedish citizens committed suicide bombings in Iraq and the conviction of two Swedes last week for planning terrorist attacks in Somalia.
Some commentators have accused the government and security services of naively placing abstract ideals of tolerance above the physical security of its citizens. "As a country, we have had an attitude that this might happen to other countries, but not to us. Discussions are more about how to be politically correct rather than focusing on the problems in order to solve them," terrorism expert Lars Nicander of the Swedish National Defense College tells TIME. "Sweden's strategies so far have been to react to terrorism rather than to prevent it." Nicander adds that the security situation is linked to the problem of Muslim assimilation within Swedish borders. "There's no discussion on the alienation and the social problems people are experiencing, things that can lead to events like this," he says.
That sort of rhetoric scares Swedish civil liberty campaigners like Ola Larsmo, chairman of the country's branch of PEN, the international association of writers. Larsmo spent most of Sunday preparing an op-ed for Dagens Nyheter, a Swedish daily, reminding Swedes that they had faced terrorism before without giving up their cherished ideal: in 1975 four people were killed when part of the Red Army Faction occupied the West German embassy in Stockholm. In 1986 Prime Minister Olaf Palme was shot dead on a Stockholm street, while in 2003 Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was stabbed to death in a department store. "We reacted well to those crises — what some people perceive as Swedish naivety is in fact we guarding our democratic society and not getting sucked into black and white thinking. We need to keep our Swedish heads as cold as possible as we decide how to react to this."
Paraphrasing Franklin Roosevelt, Larsmo also said that "freedom from fear is essential to a functioning democracy; it is not power that corrupts a democracy, it is fear." At the site of the attack on Sunday, Stockholm's shopping promenade was bustling with shoppers making their way over the crunchy snow into the city's glamorous retail outlets; two rosy-cheeked teens in earmuffs and mittens brought cups of steaming hot chocolate to the police officers guarding the attack site with the traditional, jolly Swedish greeting of "Hej Hej!" It was, in short, a typical Stockholm portrait of a friendly, calm and functional society. But in the aftermath of the attacks, no doubt many Swedes are experiencing a very un-Swedish sensation: an undercurrent of unease.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2036625,00.html
There’s no way Islamic doctrine could have inspired him, because Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance :rolleyes:
Such classic Taqiyya :munchin
Stockholm bomber: family blame Britain for radicalisation
The family of the Stockholm suicide bomber last night blamed Britain for his transformation from an “ordinary teenager” to an al-Qaeda fanatic.
“…A close friend said the family had been shocked by his transformation from an ordinary teenager to a religious fanatic after he left for Britain.”
“There is no doubt that Taimur changed when he went to Britain,” said the friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “He would drink beer with his friends and go nightclubs. He didn’t care about politics or religion. He even had an Israeli girlfriend. He had many girlfriends, he enjoyed life…”
“But when he came back he was a changed man. He told me that something had happened when he was in (Luton). I am sure of this. Someone had taken advantage of him and had brainwashed him.”
Qadeer Baksh, the chairman of the mosque, said: “Some of the members brought it to my attention that his views were extreme so I challenged him. It was all about Iraq and Afghanistan. He was saying that Western governments had no right to be there and how too many Muslims remained silent.
“It was quite serious because some of the worshippers were starting to really listen to him.”
Mr Baksh said that in 2007 he challenged Abdulwahab, who “stormed out” and never came back. The mosque did not pass on concerns about Abdulwahab to the police.
The rest here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8200044/Stockholm-bomber-family-blame-Britain-for-radicalisation.html
HOLDING ONE’S TONGUE - PERMISSIBLE LYING
r8.2 The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said,
“He who settles disagreements between people to bring about good or says something commendable is not a liar.”
“I did not hear him permit untruth in anything people say, except for three things: war, settling disagreements, and a man talking with his wife or she with him (A: in smoothing over differences).”
(Reliance of the Traveller, A Classical Manual of Islamic Sacred Law)
Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them. But Allah cautions you (To remember) Himself; for the final goal is to Allah. (YUSUFALI - 003.028)
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/quran/003.qmt.html