Suicide bomber supporter calls for attacks on European targets

Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, killed himself and wounded two people in a botched suicide attack in the Swedish capital on Saturday afternoon.

An Arabic will apparently written by the multilingual Iraq-born university graduate was posted on one jihadist internet forum.

In the document, published on Shumukh al-Islam, the terrorist suggested he was carrying out the orders of the "Islamic State of Iraq".

Security analyst Evan Kohlmann, of Flashpoint Partners, said a user who appears to have inside information posted threats of further attacks alongside it.

He said the same user, Abu Sulaiman Nasser, was the first to identify the bomber as he published a picture of him yesterday.

Mr Kohlmann said: "This man seems pretty well plugged in and has warned again of something happening in Europe against Nato targets."

The development came as British police, working in conjunction with authorities in Sweden, searched his family's rented home in Luton and removed a car believed to belong to al-Abdaly's wife.

Al-Abdaly left his family home, where he lived with his beauty stylist wife Mona and three young children, around two weeks ago.

The young family were bundled out of their rented property in Argyll Avenue, Luton. in the early hours of yesterday, his wife telling reporters she had had no idea of the plan and was "devastated".

Investigators are scouring through evidence of how an apparently happy family man was radicalised into a fanatic.

Police are also poring over his sports therapy studies at the University of Bedfordshire and a clash with members of a Luton mosque. Religious leaders said al-Abdaly was driven out of the Luton Islamic Centre for preaching about suicide bombings and attempting to recruit extremists.

The secretary of the Luton Islamic Centre, Farasat Latif, said al-Abdaly attended for a couple of months in 2006 or 2007 and was "bubbly" and "well liked" but harboured increasingly radical and violent views.

Mr Latif said senior members thought they had "led him back to the truth" but he stormed out after the chairman exposed him as a violent radical.

Al-Abdaly, an Iraq-born graduate of Bedfordshire University, is said by Swedish investigators to have been visiting his family in Tranas where his father was celebrating his birthday.

But on Saturday he loaded his white Audi with gas canisters and travelled to Stockholm to wreak carnage on streets packed with Christmas shoppers. Evidence indicated the car failed to explode and al-Abdaly was killed about 330 yards away when explosives strapped to his chest detonated.

Swedish prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said al-Abdaly may have wanted to kill people at a nearby subway station or the department store Ahlens.

Mr Lindstrand said: "He was well-equipped with bomb material, so I guess it isn't a too daring guess to say he was on his way to a place where there were as many people as possible, maybe the central station, maybe Ahlens."

The white Audi was purchased a few weeks before the attack and "large quantities" of explosives were prepared.

Mr Lindstand added: "He was wearing a bomb belt, a backpack containing a bomb and an object looking like a pressure cooker.

"It is likely to assume that some mistake was made, causing the detonation of some of the bombs he carried and resulting in his death."

EMAIL THREATS SENT TO POLICE

Email threats sent to police and Swedish news agency TT before the Stockholm blasts have been linked to al-Abdaly's mobile phone.

Speaking with an English accent, the extremist attacks Sweden's support for the war in Afghanistan and an image by a Swedish artist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a dog.

The man also warned that the "Islamic state" had begun to "fulfil its promises".