Stockholm Bombing

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• December 11 2010

:One person has been killed and two others hurt by two blasts in the centre of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, amid reports of a bomb attack.

:Swedish press reported that the second blast was a suicide bomber, but police said no cause had yet been determined.

:The car exploded at 1700 (1600 GMT) on Saturday (11 December 2010) and the second blast occurred 10 to 15 minutes later on a street about 300m (300yds) away, police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said.

:A local news agency, TT, said it had received a threatening e-mail shortly before the blasts, which called for "mujahideen", or Islamist fighters, to rise up in Sweden and Europe.

• December 12 2010

:Two explosions in Sweden's capital Stockholm are being investigated as a "crime of terror", officials say
:Swedish security police have not yet released the dead man's name, although director of operations Anders Thornberg says they now have a clearer idea about him.
:Swedish media have named a 28-year-old man of Iraqi origin as the suspected bomber.
:Swedish police are investigating a set of e-mails sent shortly before the blasts threatening attacks because Sweden had sent troops to Afghanistan.

• December 13 2010

Stockholm Bomber named as Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly.Chief prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said police were "98% sure" of this.

:Abdaly was named as the registered owner of the car.
:Meanwhile, British police have been searching Abdaly's house in Luton. His wife and children are reported to live in the UK, although their exact whereabouts are not known.

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