On Saturday evening, a 29-year-old man lay dying in the busy streets of Stockholm, Sweden. He was carrying several explosive devices and a bag of nails on his person, and was bleeding severely from a stomach wound caused by an exploded pipe bomb. He’d previously set off a car bomb before blowing himself up. The attacks killed no one, except failed terrorist Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, an Iraqi-Swede Muslim who was educated at the University of Bedfordshire and lived in Luton in the UK.
Abdaly, who is believed to have sent several email messages to various Swedish newspapers before undertaking his terrorism attempt, was raised in Sweden but attended school in the UK before making several trips to the Middle East to get terrorism training. Fortunately, his training was bad, but it could have been much worse as Abdaly blew himself up in a crowded shopping area at the height of Christmas shopping season.
“The worrying thing about this development is that there is almost zero chance of finding lone jihadists like this before they strike, and that – as each is acting alone –there can be greater numbers of attacks,” said Claude Moniquet, head of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center. “The good thing is that several heads are better than one, and the reverse is true. These people operating on their own are often no good technically, like this man.”
Image: The Guardian.
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