There may be 200 that they know of now, but it was number 201 of the Tiny Minority of Extremists that very nearly succeeded in committing mass murder. More on this story. “Suicide bomber in Sweden not on security list,” by Louise Nordstrom for the Associated Press, December 15 (thanks to JCB):
STOCKHOLM – The suicide bomber who blew himself up on a busy pedestrian street in Sweden was not on a list of 200 radical Islamists that the country’s security service had compiled, officials said Wednesday.
In a report detailing the extent of extremist Islamist networks in Sweden, ordered months before Saturday’s near-massacre in downtown Stockholm, the SAPO agency downplayed the risk of terror attacks in the Nordic country.
Activity among radicalized Muslims in Sweden is primarily directed toward supporting militants in other countries, including Somalia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, it said.
“After Saturday’s attempted attack, we can see that it also presents a serious threat against people in Sweden,” Malena Rembe, chief analyst at SAPO’s counterterrorism unit, added at a news conference.
Taimour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi-born Swede, killed himself and injured two people Saturday when a bomb he was wearing exploded on a pedestrian street in downtown Stockholm.
An audio file sent shortly before the blast from his cell phone referred to Sweden’s military presence in Afghanistan and an image by a Swedish artist that depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a dog, enraging many Muslims.
Abdulwahab spent much of the past decade in Britain and appears to have been radicalized there. Rembe said he was not among the roughly 200 people that SAPO said they had identified as active in radical Islamist networks in Sweden….