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Sweden Jails Jihadist 'Lone Wolf' for Foiled Attack
2016-06-03
[An Nahar] A Stockholm court on Thursday handed a five-year jail term to a 20-year-old student for plotting a suicide kaboom.

Described by prosecutors as a "lone wolf" jihadist, Aydin Sevigin acknowledged that he supported the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and that he sought martyrdom.

Sevigin insisted, though, that he had not planned to carry out an attack in Sweden -- an account that was rejected by the court, although Sherlocks were unable to identify the target.

Sevigin tried to travel to Syria via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
in June last year but was expelled twice by the Turkish authorities, the court heard.

Frustrated, he then decided to carry out an attack in Sweden, prosecutors said.

He was tossed in the slammer
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
in February after his mother found bomb-making material, including bottles of acetone, electrical wire, adhesive tape and ball bearings, and tipped off the authorities.

Police found a mobile phone whose password was "jihad".
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