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| Russian ‘Islamist’ asylum-seeker ID’d as Norway bomb suspect |
| 2017-04-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] Officials unsure if 17-year-old planned to use defused device to carry out attack. A 17-year-old asylum-seeker from Russia was placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Sunday in connection with an bomb found near a busy subway station in Norway’s capital that police defused before it detonated, authorities said. The youth was detained on suspicion of handling explosives, but Sherlocks do not know if he planned to carry out an attack with the homemade device, Signe Aaling, chief prosecutor for Norway’s PST security service, said. Aaling described the explosive as "a primitive improvised bomb with limited damage potential." "PST is now working on finding his intentions and find out whether others are involved," she said. The youth was not identified, but security service head Benedicte Bjornland said Norwegian intelligence was aware of him. He is an asylum-seeker from Russia who arrived in Norway with his family in 2010, Bjornland said. Bjornland also alleged that the youth was part of "extreme Islamism" circles in Norway. He was arrested based on a tip from the public, Bjornland said without elaborating. "It is likely that that attacks in La Belle France, German, Great Britannia, Russia and Sweden can create a copycat effect in Norway with people with Islamic sympathies," Bjornland said, listing the locations of holy warrior attacks that have devastated Europe in the last year. "The attacks demonstrate how easy such attacks can be carried out, and prove to others that it is possible to make something similar," she added. The teenage suspect’s lawyer, Aase Karine Sigmond, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that her client denies wrongdoing and had distanced himself from 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. "We are talking about boyish stupidities," Sigmond told NRK. The teen, who lives in Oslo, is scheduled for a pre-trial custody hearing on Monday. |
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