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Stockholm bombing: Iraqi group linked to al-Qaida praises attack
Suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly referred to as 'martyr' on Islamist
website
* Ian Black, Middle East editor
* guardian.co.uk, Monday 13 December 2010 13.44 GMT
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Swedish chief prosecutor Thomas Linstran Sweden's chief prosecutor, Thomas
Linstrand, giving a press conference today in Stockholm about the bombings.
Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images
The Swedish suicide bomb attack has been hailed by an al-Qaida-linked
organisation, the Islamic State of Iraq, according to an Islamist website.
The al-Hanin website today published a photomontage including a photograph of
Iraq-born Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly suggesting he was a member of the group
and had carried out the Stockholm explosion. It does not directly claim
responsibilty for the attack but expresses clear approval.
Abdaly was described as muhjahid or fighter and referred to on another
Arabic-language Islamist internet forum as "our brother", though this phrase
does not necessarily indicate a prior organisational affiliation.
Al-Hanin forum members refer to Abdaly as a "martyr" and the Stockholm blasts
as a "martyrdom operation", invoking the blessings of Allah.
In 2007, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, called
for reprisals in Sweden for the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad by the Swedish
cartoonist Lars Vilks. In an audio message Baghdadi also offered cash for
killing the cartoonist.
The al-Hanin website regularly carries propaganda images issued by the group,
often gruesome video clips of attacks on Iraqi or US forces. "The Islamic State
of Iraq defends the Sunni people against the Crusader-Zionist alliance,"
proclaims the slogan above the Abdaly photomontage.
The ISI claimed responsibility for several mass casualty bombings in Baghdad
this year, including the church attack at the end of October in which at least
58 people were killed.
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