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Swedish Police Probe Stockholm Blasts as Terrorism

   VOA News 12 December 2010
   In  this  image  from video, showing emergency services as they attend
   the scene after a car exploded in the center of Stockholm, 11 Dec 2010

Photo: AP

   In  this  image  from video, showing emergency services as they attend
   the scene after a car exploded in the center of Stockholm, 11 Dec 2010

   Police  in  Sweden say two explosions in central Stockholm that killed
   one person and injured two others was a terrorist attack.
   Police  spokesman  Anders  Thornberg told a news conference Sunday the
   explosions  are  being  investigated  under  Swedish  law as an act of
   terror, but that authorities have not raised the security level.
   Police  say  the  first  blast  Saturday occurred in a car near a busy
   shopping  street, slightly injuring two people.  Shortly afterward, a
   second  explosion  was  heard on the same street.  Police later found
   one  person dead at the scene.  Authorities believe that person was a
   suicide bomber.
   Swedish  news  agency  TT  said  Saturday  that  10 minutes before the
   blasts,  it  had  received an e-mail in Arabic and Swedish, warning of
   unspecified "action."
   The  news  agency  said the warning, also sent to the Security Police,
   referred  to Sweden's involvement in Afghanistan and to caricatures of
   the Prophet Muhammad by the Swedish artist Lars Vilks.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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