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A Scottish jury found Glasgow resident Nasserdine Menni guilty of financing the December 2010 Stockholm suicide bombing. Menni used bank accounts under various names to send money to the bomber, provided him with a car, and also helped fund his trips abroad "for purposes of Jihad."
Prosecutors said circumstantial evidence links Glasgow resident Nasserdine Menni to Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab, including the fact they shared an email account with password "9/11." Menni is being tried in a Glasgow court on charges of conspiracy and providing financial support for terrorism.
Karzai Seeks Full Freedom for Taliban in Guantanamo
A court charged an Uzbek couple with complicity in the attempted murder of Obydhkon Soditkhony Nazarov, an imam in northern Sweden. Prosecutors view the crime as a political assassination attempt; Nazarov is wanted in Uzbekistan on terror-related charges.
Ahmed Agiza, who was arrested in Sweden in 2001 and handed over by the CIA to Egypt along with fellow Egyptian Mohammed Alzery, has been granted permanent residency in Sweden. In earlier years, Agiza was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and had worked closely with Ayman al Zawahiri.
Sniffer dogs near the reactor of the Ringhals nuclear plant south of Gothenburg found a plastic explosive device attached to the underside of a truck used on the premises. Authorities called the device an act of sabotage and raised the threat level at nuclear facilities across the country.
Syrian opposition finds new leader in Sweden
The Swedish military raised its assessed terrorist threat level from "low" to "elevated." Sweden's intelligence agency, SAPO, has kept its threat level assessment at "elevated" since October 2010. The military's revised estimate was influenced by "increased activity in certain groups that embrace violence" directed against Swedish interests.
Link Between WikiLeaks And Hacker Group Revealed
Live grenade found in central Malmo
The national intelligence service's annual report says the agency's budget has doubled over the past decade. The report states that "several" persons in Sweden are supporting Islamic terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, and that others have traveled to terrorist training camps abroad.
The attempted assassination of Obid Nazarov, a popular Uzbek cleric in the northern city of Stromsund, is being blamed on Uzbek government officials. Nazarov remains in a coma following the February attack. He had fled to Sweden in 2006 after the Uzbek government sought to arrest him for terrorism.
Swedish police hunt man for imam shooting
Sweden moves to outlaw forced marriages
Two held for shooting imam in northern Sweden
Orebro man held over spying allegations
Ex-Member of Somali Terrorist Group Helps a US Prosecution
Citing security, US abandons consulate site in Afghanistan
The trial of Nasserdine Menni, who conspired with Stockholm suicide bomber Taimor Abdulwahab, opened in Glasgow. Menni faces charges of transferring money to Abdulwahab and engaging in terrorist activity in Scotland, England, Sweden, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere from 2003 until 2011.
Sweden's defense 'not fit for battle': expert
