Sweden Begins Terror Inquiry After Bombing in Stockholm

Swedish authorities are calling the bombing in the heart of Sweden's Capital an act of terrorism. Investigators believe the suicide bomber was a 28year old Swede of Iraqi origin, and who had been carrying pipe bombs and a backpack full of nails. They had also received e-mails minutes before the blasts of a guy making statements in English, Arabic, and Swedish.

He read haltingly from what was apparently a prepared script, and said that Swedes had brought “these actions” on themselves. The message singled out Lars Vilks, a cartoonist threatened repeatedly with murder since publishing a derogatory cartoon of the prophet Mohammed in 2007, and demanded that European nations withdraw their soldiers from Afghanistan. Then, with the sound of the turn of a page, he addressed his wife and children. The man confessed to them that trips he had made to the Middle East were not for business, but for “jihad”.

It terrifying to know that there are terrorist threats that go around all the time. Its also very upsetting that Countries like the United States and Sweden are targets for these terrorist groups because of actions we have