Terrorist attacks in Sweden ?

[Stoat Boy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11977524

Seems rather nasty.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Sweden? That country been a high value target like this in this past? Interesting timing given the Assange case...

 

[Stigmata]

Looks like yet another botch job by some nutter. It's a good thing terrorists tend towards incompetence.

 

[Lock&Light]

Sweden? That country been a high value target like this in this past? Interesting timing given the Assange case...

You seem to have forgotten the shooting of Sweden's prime-minister some years ago. I wonder what that had to do with the Assange case....

 

[Edie]

Shit

 

[Citizen66]

First thing I thought of here regarding a Muslim faction attacking Sweden was Osama Bin Laden's purported comments from 2004:

Oh American people, my talk to you is about the best way to avoid another Manhattan, about the war, its causes, and results.

Security is an important pillar of human life. Free people do not relinquish their security. This is contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom.

Let him tell us why we did not strike Sweden, for example. It is known that those who hate freedom do not have proud souls, like the souls of the 19 people [killed while perpetrating the 11 September 2001 attacks], may God have mercy on them.

We fought you because we are free and do not accept injustice. We want to restore freedom to our nation. Just as you waste our security, we will waste your security.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3966817.stm

It means nothing regarding this attack of course but it rang true that Sweden would be an unlikely target for Islamic extremists, compared to other European pickings.

 

[Lock&Light]

It means nothing regarding this attack of course but it always sat as an unlikely target for Islamic extremists in my mind.

Nothing, not even a mosque, is an unlikely target for Islamists.

 

[Citizen66]

Nothing, not even a mosque, is an unlikely target for Islamists.

Link?

 

[frogwoman]

shit.

 

[twentythreedom]

something to do with cartoons of mohammed?

 

[Citizen66]

Well that all happened years ago in Denmark...

 

[yardbird]

Well that all happened years ago in Denmark...

Yeah but there's a Swedish connection to the guy who did the cartoon. Is he hiding there or something?

 

[Citizen66]

No idea. I do remember some noise (or perhaps it was a joke?) around the time that Muslims were going to boycott Danish products.

So that'd be lager, bacon and porn, then.

 

[editor]

*moved to appropriate forum

And here's the background that the OP couldn't be bothered to add:

One person has been killed and two others injured in two explosions that rocked the centre of the Swedish capital, Stockholm.

A car blew up near the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan and another blast followed nearby minutes later.

Swedish press attributed the second blast to a suicide bomber but police said no cause had yet been determined.

Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said a "terrorist attack" which could have been "truly catastrophic" had failed...

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.

Attacking the country over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed drawn by Swedish artist Lars Vilks as well as Sweden's military presence in Afghanistan, the e-mail promised Swedes would "die like our brothers and sisters".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11977524

 

[Kid_Eternity]

You seem to have forgotten the shooting of Sweden's prime-minister some years ago. I wonder what that had to do with the Assange case....

And you seem to have forgotten that you're a trolling bellend Lock&Shite.

 

[ernestolynch]

So the one killed was the wannabe murderer?

 

[Lock&Light]

And you seem to have forgotten that you're a trolling bellend Lock&Shite.

I had hoped you might have grown up a bit over the years, Kid, but you have in fact only become more infantile.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I had hoped you might have grown up a bit over the years, Kid, but you have in fact only become more infantile.

Why you were let back on I don't know, you're still an attention seeking bellend.

 

[DrRingDing]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the Swedish fash.

 

[Lock&Light]

Why you were let back on I don't know, you're still an attention seeking bellend.

There are more things you do not know.

 

[Streathamite]

So the one killed was the wannabe murderer?

it seems so, but they don't know for sure yet

 

[Streathamite]

One possible motivation for the bomber is that there are 500 swedish troops serving as part of the multinational forces in Afghanistan

 

[JHE]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the Swedish fash.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Urban75 can be relied on to have posters who deny that Islamoshites do what Islamoshites do. My favourite dollop of idiocy was from poor mad Ninoxi who claimed that the atrocity in Bombay just over two years ago was the work on fanatical Hindus!

 

[weltweit]

Apparently the would be killer may have gone to college in Britain for a couple of years.

I don't know why that might be significant but the news are mentioning it as if it is!

 

[fishfinger]

Rubber dinghy rapids bro.

 

[DexterTCN]

Apparently the would be killer may have gone to college in Britain for a couple of years.

I don't know why that might be significant but the news are mentioning it as if it is!

Just a local angle for the brit journos to blow up (cough).

 

[DrRingDing]

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Urban75 can be relied on to have posters who deny that Islamoshites do what Islamoshites do. My favourite dollop of idiocy was from poor mad Ninoxi who claimed that the atrocity in Bombay just over two years ago was the work on fanatical Hindus!

I didn't say any such thing, did I? I took it for granted that it was the doing of some fundies. I thought that was obvious, just with the caveat that "I wouldn't be surprised if it was the Swedish fash."

 

[Proper Tidy]

Just a local angle for the brit journos to blow up (cough).

Luton, apparently.

 

[Stoat Boy]

Apparently the would be killer may have gone to college in Britain for a couple of years.

I don't know why that might be significant but the news are mentioning it as if it is!

My guess is that its because of the fears/claims about radicalisation at College. The attempted bombing last year on the plane from Amesterdam to the US was carried out by somebody who had also gone to college in the UK.

 

[spliff]

At 8am I flicked between the news channels - BBC, Sky & ITV.

All three had reporters reporting live outside the house where the bomber lived in Luton at slightly different angles to avoid getting the other crews in shot.
None of them had anything to say of relevance that warranted them being there.
They were all quoting 'information from the internet' and 'according to newspaper reports'

Made me chuckle it did What a waste of resources.