Stockholm suicide bomber 'may not have acted alone'

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Source: The Guardian

The suicide bomber who blew himself up on a street in Stockholm may have had help preparing the attack, Swedish officials said today.

Investigators initially said that Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, an Iraqi-born Swede, appeared to have acted alone during Saturday's bombing, in which he died and two people were hurt.

But they are also "investigating whether there could have been someone else involved in the preparations", though there are no suspects at this point. The Swedish investigators said they were aware of claims made by Iraqi officials that captured insurgents had revealed the suicide bombing was part of attacks being planned by al-Qaida against the US and Europe during the Christmas season.

"We consider it interesting," said Jan Garton, of the SAPO security service. He wouldn't say whether Sweden was in touch with Iraq about the case.

Abdaly spent much of the past decade in Britain and appears to have been radicalised there. SAPO have said he was not among roughly 200 Islamists they had identified in Sweden.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/16/stockholm-suicide-bomber-help

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1. No doubt, this guy will turn up not too far from the scene.

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