[TheLocal.se] The man suspected of carrying out a truck attack in Stockholm on April 7th had links to a jihadist leader through social media, according to Sveriges Radio.In the months before the suspected terror attack, Rakhmat Akilov
| ...the rejected asylum-seeking father of four who drove a hijacked, bomb-laden, 30-ton truck through a crowded Stockholm pedestrian zone in April on orders of ISIS after he was caught trying to get to Syria. He killed four and injured 15, considerably fewer than he'd planned because his bomb didn't explode. This proves that Allah did not approve... |
The propaganda is mostly spread through Russian social media site Odnoklassniki, where the anonymous intermediary has added Akilov as a friend, meaning he could receive the propaganda which is mostly aimed at migrant workers from Central Asia.
Among the profiles in the network are several people saying they come from or live in Sweden.
| Abu Saloh is the leader of an Uzbek Islamist group which is fighting in Syria and has links to Al Qaeda. |
It is not clear whether Akilov himself communicated with the turbans in the network however.
Akilov, 39, has confessed to driving the truck in the April attack in Stockholm in which five people were killed. He admitted to committing a "terrorist crime" during a remand hearing at Stockholm District Court last month.