Sweden bomb suspect arrested in UK

Sweden bomb suspect arrested in UK

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Scottish police arrest 30-year-old foreign national in connection with a botched suicide bombing in Stockholm.

Scottish police have arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with a botched suicide bombing in Stockholm, the Swedish capital, last December.

The man, said to be a foreign national, was detained following a dawn raid in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday.

A police statement said the arrest "relates to allegations that this individual has been involved in aiding terrorism activities outside Scotland", but added there was "no evidence" to suggest he posed a risk to Scotland.

Taimour Abdulwahab al Abdaly, an Iraqi-born Swedish national, blew himself up and injured two others in an apparent attempt to target Christmas shoppers in downtown Stockholm on December 11, 2010.

It is believed he was intent on attacking a train station or department store, but the explosives he was wearing detonated prematurely.

In January, the director of Iraq's anti-terrorism unit said al Abdaly, who lived in Sweden in the 1990s, had received explosives training in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

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