Suicide bomber sent warning audio message

The Stockholm suicide bomber recorded a shocking audio message in which he warned “our actions will speak for themselves”.

Speaking with an English accent, the man can be heard warning that an “Islamic state” has been created and many will die.

The sinister voice is believed to be Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, who disappeared from his family home in Luton around two weeks ago.

The Iraqi-born Swede was at the centre of an international counter-terrorism inquiry today involving police and security services in Britain and Sweden.

Speaking at a press conference in Stockholm today, prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said investigators are "98%" certain the suicide bomber was Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly.

He said the suspect became a Swedish national in 1992, had roots in the Middle East and was the registered owner of the damaged car.

Mr Lindstrand said e-mail threats sent to security police and Swedish news agency TT before the blasts have been linked to his mobile phone.

The suspect had explosives strapped to his body and in a backpack and carried “something that looked like a pressure-cooker”.

Investigators were focusing on how al-Abdaly was radicalised from an apparently happy family man to a suspected murderous fanatic.

His beauty stylist wife and three young children were bundled out of his rented three-bedroom family home in Luton by police in the early hours today.

Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command have been scouring the Argyll Avenue home for clues after executing a search warrant last night.

Police were also examining his studies at the University of Bedfordshire and an apparent clash with members of a mosque in the town.

The audio message was sent in an email to the security police and Swedish news agency TT shortly before two bombs exploded in Stockholm on Saturday.

The terrorist attacked Sweden’s support for the war in Afghanistan and an image by a Swedish artist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a dog.

Accusing Sweden of failing to oppose this, he said: “So will your children, daughters, brothers and sisters die, like our brothers, sister and children die.

“Now the Islamic state has been created. We now exist here in Europe and in Sweden. We are a reality.

“I don’t want to say more about this. Our actions will speak for themselves.”

The man also warned that the “Islamic state” had begun to “fulfil its promises” and warned that the oppression of Muslims “will not be tolerated”.

The audio warning echoed a message posted by a jihadist on the Shumukh al-Islam website, which has links to al Qaida, and attributed to al-Abdaly.

According to one US terrorist monitoring organisation, the message read: “[The] Islamic State [of Iraq] has fulfilled what it promised you”.

A picture of al-Abdaly appeared on the Shumukh al-Islam website yesterday with a message claiming the “brother” was responsible for the attack.

Two people were wounded in central Stockholm in what appeared to be the first suicide bombing in the history of Sweden.

Police suspect the man responsible attempted to detonate a car bomb in a busy shopping street before killing himself with a suicide vest.

A white Audi packed with gas canisters left severely damaged in the attack was registered to al-Abdaly.

The attack was strikingly similar to two car bombs laden with gas canisters and petrol and left in London’s West End in 2007.

The Swedish Security Service has taken over the inquiry into the explosions and officials said they were almost certain al-Abdaly was responsible.

In a press conference today, one official said the bomber had explosives strapped to his body and in a rucksack.