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al-Qaeda site: Sweden bomber targeted newspaper

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A website affiliated with al-Qaeda said Tuesday the suicide bomber behind the blasts that shook central Stockholm was targeting a newspaper linked to cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad but one of his bombs exploded too soon.

 

A writer on the Shumokh al-Islam website wrote Tuesday that one of the bomber's six gas cylinders in his car exploded prematurely. The writer said the bomber then tried to escape but one of the bombs strapped to his body also exploded too soon. (AP)

 

 

 

 

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