“The person claimed to have been to the Middle East and asked family for forgiveness for lying to them. ‘I didn’t go to the middle east to work,’ the writer wrote. ‘I went there for jihad’.”
He asked forgiveness for lying to his family. But the deliberate, calculated targeting of infidels for mass slaughter, well, that’s all in a day’s jihad. And now, stay tuned for the ritual head-scratching about what “radicalized” the undoubtedly “troubled” individuals behind the attack.
More on this story. “Explosions in Stockholm believed to be failed terrorist attack,” by Per Nyberg for CNN, December 11:
(CNN) — A failed terrorist attack in a central Stockholm district full of Christmas shoppers could have been catastrophic, Swedish authorities said late Saturday.
Police are investigating whether two explosions in Stockholm, an e-mail threat sent shortly before the attack that mentions Afghanistan and the body of a man who was apparently killed in one of the explosions are related.
“Most worrying attempt at terrorist attack in crowded part of central Stockholm. Failed — but could have been truly catastrophic,” Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said in a Twitter message on Saturday.
A Swedish news agency and police said they received e-mail threats against the Swedish people 10 minutes before the explosions, which killed one person and injured two others on Saturday.
“We have not taken any decision to increase the terror threat level,” said Swedish Security Police spokesman Mikael Gunnarsson. “And apart from the e-mail we didn’t have any other indications or threats that this would happen,” Gunnarsson added. […]
Police said the explosions were in a popular pedestrian shopping area.
“One explosion happened at the intersection of Drottninggatan and Olof Palmes Gata,” two busy streets in central Stockholm, said police spokeswoman Petra Sjolander. “This was the car that exploded multiple times.”
A second explosion occurred about five minutes later, at the intersection of Drottninggatan and Bryggargatan streets, Sjolander said. […]
The e-mail writer ended the message with a call for action “to all Mujahadeen in Europe and Sweden,” TT said.
“Now is the time to strike, don’t wait any longer,” the message read, according to TT. “Step up with whatever you have, even if it is a knife, and I know you have more than a knife. Fear no one, fear not prison, fear not death.”
TT said that it was not clear from the e-mail or the audio files if the person belongs to any specific organization.
The person claimed to have been to the Middle East and asked family for forgiveness for lying to them. “I didn’t go to the middle east to work,” the writer wrote. “I went there for jihad.”