So what was is it the meek, mild, political correct, peaceful, pacifist Sweden did to deserve this ? Perhaps its because they are predominantly white Christians like the rest of us here in Europe and of course we know what the good book has to say about us.
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Terror lorry lessons Sweden to deal with violent extremism by human brain
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Terror lorry lessons Sweden to deal with violent extremism by human brain
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Dud bomb on Swedish terror lorry
Police say the Uzbek arrested over Friday’s shopping centre attack had explosives that failed to detonate
The Sunday Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/dud-bomb-on-swedish-terror-lorry-9vcm6tgpk?CMP=TNLEmail_118918_1646809
A lorry that ploughed into a crowded Swedish shopping district on Friday was packed with explosives that failed to detonate, according to police investigating an Islamist terror plot against the country’s capital.
Four people died and 15 were injured when the lorry, driven by a suspected Uzbek terrorist with alleged Islamist links, drove down the busy street on Friday afternoon. One of the victims was British, Swedish police announced this morning.
Officials warned yesterday that the death toll could rise because nine of the injured were in a “very serious” condition. One of the victims, according to witnesses, was a baby in a pram, while media reports said an 11-year-old girl who had been reported missing near the scene had died.
The carnage could have been much worse had an “improvised device” gone off. Bomb disposal experts were examining the makeshift explosive found on the driver’s seat. Police sources described the item as an “incendiary”. The suspect was reported to have “burnt himself” when handling the device .
The 39-year-old labourer arrested in connection with the attack is a father of four who was known to Swedish authorities. He had stolen the lorry, used for beer deliveries, in central Stockholm and used it to target shoppers outside the biggest department store, Ahlens. He then fled into the nearby station and boarded a train.
How the terror attack in Sweden unfolded
Police released CCTV images from the station and a woman travelling on the same carriage who saw the footage on her mobile phone immediately alerted officers. He finished his journey but was recognised by another witness in the suburb of Marsta. He was arrested just over five hours after the attack took place.
Newspapers reported that the suspect had posted Isis propaganda on his Facebook page. Last night he was named by researchers as Rakhmat Akilov, originally from Samarkand. He is thought to have moved to Stockholm in 2012. Two years ago he was investigated as part of an alleged scheme for Isis financing involving four other Uzbeks in Sweden. Prosecutors could not prove the terrorism link, but three other Uzbeks were convicted of financial offences as a result of the investigation. This morning police said he had had his residency permit application turned down.
Dan Eliasson, the national police commissioner, said the attack was “very similar” to the Westminster Bridge attack in London last month and atrocities last year in Berlin and Nice.
Several suspected associates of the man had been “arrested, detained or interviewed” as part of an international investigation into a possible terrorist network. “We are carefully scanning his communications, his contacts, his social networks . . . we are working in a comprehensive way to see whether there are further individuals involved,” Eliasson said. He added that information about the man had previously pointed to him being a “marginal character”.
As flowers were laid near the scene yesterday, witnesses recounted the panic in the aftermath of the attack and gave thanks for the “miracle” many more did not die.
Friday’s attack left witnesses overcomeMARKUS SCHREIBER
A 56-year-old man who would give his name only as Mustafa was tending to his leather-goods stand in a market adjacent to the site of the attack when the lorry sped by. “I heard a loud, thunderous crash and I thought it was some massive car accident. I ran over to the site and I saw human body parts scattered across the street,” he said. “A human being was dismembered. I couldn’t tell whether it was a man or a woman.”
“Maybe this is a turning point for Sweden to open its eyes to violent extremism.”
Mustafa, a native of the Iraqi city of Mosul who came to Sweden 34 years ago, watched as fellow shopkeepers covered the remains of the dismembered bodies with black plastic bin bags.
“ I just froze, I couldn’t think or move,” he said. “ Then came a human wave, hundreds of people just running towards me, screaming. They were shouting ‘bomb, bomb’ so I ran with them and hid in the entrance to the subterranean garage next to my stand.”
He told how his brother’s house in Mosul, which is the site of a bloody battle between Isis and Iraqi-led allied forces, had been hit three times in the past two months.
“Back home there is war, but Sweden is a peaceful country, these are wonderful people, they have embraced me and people like me . . . what kind of person would do this here, and why?”
The same street, Drottninggatan, was attacked by an Islamist suicide bomber, who blew himself up but failed to kill anyone, in 2010. Sweden has since been on a heightened terror alert.
Magnus Ranstorp, a Swedish expert on militant Islamist groups, said the country had been “living on borrowed time” as the migrant population surged over the past decade. “Maybe this is a turning point for Sweden to open its eyes to violent extremism,” he said.
Sweden’s prime minister, Stefan Lofven, delivered an emotional speech on Friday in which he called on his countrymen to show defiance in the face of terrorism. “We are determined to never let the values that we treasure — democracy, human rights and freedom — to be undermined,” Lofven said. “Terrorists can never defeat Sweden, never.”
The Swedish department store that was rammed said on Sunday it regrets an announcement that it would reopen two days after the deadly attack to sell damaged goods at a “reduced price.”
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I live in Hungary and everytime I see an event like this I thank God for Orban Viktor and his policies of contolling very tightly any immigration from outside the EU into this country
Sweden, like so many other countries, will regret allowing anyone and everyone to enter!
