Sweden bomber ‘was targeting newspaper’

A WEBSITE affiliated with al-Qaida said yesterday 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.

Taimour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi-born Swede who spent much of the past decade in Britain, died in the botched attack on a busy shopping street late Saturday, terrifying Christmas shoppers.

A writer on the Shumokh al-Islam website wrote 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.