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Sweden: Three Muslims arrested over Stockholm truck jihad attack, bomb found inside truck

Apr 8, 2017 1:53 pm By Robert Spencer

But remember: if you oppose bringing more Muslim migrants into Sweden, you’re a racist, bigoted Islamophobe.

“Police arrest three more suspects over the Stockholm truck attack as special forces raid a property 20km from the atrocity which killed four,” by Jake Wallis Simons, Paul Thompson, Abe Hawken, Isobel Frodsham and Rory Tingle, Mailonline, April 8, 2017:

Police investigating Friday’s atrocity arrested three more suspects in central Stockholm on Saturday afternoon.

It is understood that the suspects were taken from a car that was connected to the suspected terrorist.

Officers smashed the window on the driver’s side as they took the suspects into custody at five o’clock, Swedish media reported.

The police has not yet commented on the arrests.

It comes as a major police operation is taking place in Vårberg, a suburb of Western Stockholm about 12 miles from the scene of the attack.

Police special forces have been seen raiding a property in the area and technicians have removed a number of items of evidence from the address.

Earlier it was revealed the 39-year-old Uzbek man who has been arrested over the Stockholm truck attack was known to the police and has ISIS propaganda on his laptop.

Police also confirmed a homemade bomb was found inside the truck and the man arrested is ‘likely’ to be the driver.

The head of Sweden’s domestic intelligence agency told a press conference today that the suspect had been on authorities’ radar some time ago.

Anders Thornberg, head of the Swedish Security Service, said: ‘The suspect didn’t appear in our recent files but he earlier has been in our files.’

Police chief Dan Eliasson added that the suspect was a ‘marginal character’ and was not thought to be under direct surveillance.

The man, who is from Uzbekistan, was arrested in the early hours of the morning after the terror attack left four people dead and 15 injured.

Speaking at the press conference in the Swedish capital Stockholm, Eliasson said he could not give any further details on the suspect or if he had any links to the ISIS terror group.

He said: ‘He was known. The intelligence and security police were aware and said he was a marginal character.

‘There is nothing that tells us that we have the wrong person.’

He added he did not know whether others were involved in the attack and said ‘we cannot exclude this’.

It is not know how long the suspect had been in Sweden. Reports by Swedish media described him as a father of four who was found to have ISIS propaganda on his laptop.

Reports have also suggested that the suspect posted jihadist propaganda on social media and had pictures of injured people following the Boston Marathon explosion in 2013.

Police said they were still at a preliminary stage in the inquiry and they were trying to build up a profile of the arrested man’s behaviour and to see if he was part of a wider cell.

The police said he couldn’t confirm or deny if the suspect acted alone.

Eliasson urged the public to remain alert and said he was confident the police in the country could deal with any further terror attacks.

He said: ‘We do not know if there were further persons in this act. We are not excluding that and we are working to see if others were involved.’…

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  1. Wellington says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 1:57 pm

    Hmmm. I wonder what the motive was.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 2:31 pm

      No motive, Welly. It’s because of trucks.

      BAN ALL TRUCKS NOW!

      • Wellington says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 2:38 pm

        Yes, we need truck control. Who could doubt it?

    • Jan Aage Jeppesen says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 3:46 pm

      No motive, just mental illness. According to former Swedish PM Varl Bildt yesterday.

    • Manuel 2 Paleologus says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 11:27 pm

      It was not a terrorist attack. They were learning how to drive a big truck.
      This is what those idiots from Sweden want you to believe. They were just a few crazy people or maybe some drunk drivers.

  2. Karen says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 2:12 pm

    He is the father of four. Swell, so glad he propagated his DNA. I can hear the cries for mercy from his taxpayer-provided defense attorneys now.

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    SWEDICIDE!

    The Swedish Social Democratic Party created the problem and cannot be trusted to solve it.

    Will the Swedes have the wisdom to chose wise leaders or will they continue on the road to national suicide?

    There will be more attacks if the Swedes don’t change their political party in power.

  4. mortimer says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 2:21 pm

    Quote: “Police chief Dan Eliasson added that the suspect was a ‘marginal character’ and was not thought to be under direct surveillance.”

    In other words, the driver-terrorist WAS A RATHER ORDINARY MUSLIM LIKE OTHERS.

    Ordinary Muslims BELIEVE IN JIHAD to terrorize and subjugate the DIRTY KAFIRS under Sharia law.

    Koran 8.60 “TURHIBUNNA” (terrorized them).

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 2:32 pm

    That murderous jihad truck attack in Stockholm Sweden further exposes the violent and deadly nature of Islam. Many times the jihadist members of different Islamic terror entities, as those of ISIS, have gathered together and chanted the words “We love death, they love life.” Likewise those jihadist/Muslims don’t stop with those awful words; they carry through with jihad suicide/homicide attacks. Any sane person would ask “Why do those jihad –minded Muslims have such a mindset of murderous madness?” The answer is that they obtain the way of thinking and believing from the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran. As some people call it the Qu ‘ran. For example the Koran in Sura 9:111 instructs “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Therefore it may be conclude that Islam is actually a death cult. In great and wonderful contrast to the death cult which is Islam there is Christianity which is centered on Jesus and His teachings. For Jesus did not teach killing and death but taught and gave life, a good peaceful well lived life and more. For example Jesus declared “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10. [K.J.V.]

  6. John A. Marre says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 3:17 pm

    Their ideology is the motivating factor. It is insane to bring in millions of rapidly-reproducing individuals who avidly follow the dictates of their ideology and pass it on to their multiple children.

  7. David says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 4:56 pm

    The Muslim man was driving a beer truck!

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 11:30 pm

      This is not Haram if they are using it to kill us.

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 11:33 pm

    Sweden: Three Muslims arrested over Stockholm truck jihad attack, bomb found inside truck
    …………………

    More mayhem planned by the “religion of peace”…

  9. Lawrence says

    Apr 9, 2017 at 3:08 am

    Is the Swedish foreign minister Margot Wallstrom going to blame Israel for this attack the way she blamed the Bataclan Paris attacks on Israel i.e. the Joooos? Oh look Dhimmi Sweden you are not protected from the Jihad despite your love affair with Islam. Who would have thunk it?

  10. Rufolino says

    Apr 9, 2017 at 4:04 am

    “The man had pictures of the injured in the Boston Marathon explosion.” And he had four kids…!

    Yep, we sure do need more of these types, I don’t think.

  11. Dan King says

    Apr 9, 2017 at 9:55 am

    Once again, the murderers were long known to be islamic muslim terrorist jihadis and nothing was done to stop or remove then. The pro-globalist pro-jihadi govts only are cleanup crews , like a janitor after a street riot. All are know to be wolves, but they always call them “lone” wolf. Everyone knows wolves hunt and kill for the whole pack, not just each on it’s own.

  12. Dale Netherton says

    Apr 9, 2017 at 11:13 am

    If the powers that be would recognize that the real issue is Infidelophobia instead of Islamaphobia progress could proceed to wipe oout his menace.

  13. art says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 8:20 am

    what the hell happend? why oh why?? no way true moslem will do such a thing.. there is impossible.. those crazy shit people only pretending as a moslem..Man i am so upset everytime they did crime and blaming Islam..

    • Dale Netherton says

      Apr 14, 2017 at 11:33 am

      What is a true Muslim? One who accepts lying as acceptable? Read the Koran. Maybe you shold get upset over what they really beleive and how they intend to pursue conquest. If you’re an infidel ,you should understand.

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