Sweden holds terror alert level
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December 17, 2010, Friday
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SWEDEN sees no reason to raise its terrorism threat level despite reports further attacks could be planned in Europe and the United States after a terror bid in Stockholm, the Security Police said yesterday.
Police are still wading through a mass of evidence after the failed attack in the Swedish capital last Saturday, when a bomber, Taimour Abdulwahab, blew himself up by accident. This prevented him setting off more explosives in a much deadlier attack.
"There is no new information at the current time that would necessitate a further raising of the threat level" said Security Police director of operations Anders Thornberg.
He spoke after a Swedish newspaper carried a report quoting an Iraqi minister as saying that militants in jail had said the Stockholm attack was part of a planned series of attacks over the Christmas holiday period.
A militant on Monday also delivered an online threat that warned of more attacks if Western soldiers did not withdraw from Afghanistan.
Officials said investigations have led to the identification of the type of explosive used in the Stockholm blasts, though they declined to say what it was.
They said 400 tips had come in from the public.
An autopsy of the body had been carried out and they hoped this would identify the bomber for certain.
Police previously said they were only "98 percent" sure it was Abdulwahab.
Police are still wading through a mass of evidence after the failed attack in the Swedish capital last Saturday, when a bomber, Taimour Abdulwahab, blew himself up by accident. This prevented him setting off more explosives in a much deadlier attack.
"There is no new information at the current time that would necessitate a further raising of the threat level" said Security Police director of operations Anders Thornberg.
He spoke after a Swedish newspaper carried a report quoting an Iraqi minister as saying that militants in jail had said the Stockholm attack was part of a planned series of attacks over the Christmas holiday period.
A militant on Monday also delivered an online threat that warned of more attacks if Western soldiers did not withdraw from Afghanistan.
Officials said investigations have led to the identification of the type of explosive used in the Stockholm blasts, though they declined to say what it was.
They said 400 tips had come in from the public.
An autopsy of the body had been carried out and they hoped this would identify the bomber for certain.
Police previously said they were only "98 percent" sure it was Abdulwahab.
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