Countdown to Naming Swedish Beer-Truck Terrorist (Read 3802 times)

punaperson

Countdown to Naming Swedish Beer-Truck Terrorist
« on: April 07, 2017, 08:50:03 AM »
Anyone taking bets his name will NOT be Bjorn Johansson, nor Nils Eriksson (or the like)?

macsak

Re: Countdown to Naming Swedish Beer-Truck Terrorist
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2017, 08:51:50 AM »
Anyone taking bets his name will NOT be Bjorn Johansson, nor Nils Eriksson (or the like)?

MSM also not mentioning the name of the st petersburg bomber very much either

punaperson

Re: Countdown to Naming Swedish Beer-Truck Terrorist
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2017, 01:37:08 PM »
They're keeping us in suspense. There has been an arrest of someone who has claimed responsibility for the attack, but his name has not been released. Maybe it was some whack Swede...

mrgaf

Re: Countdown to Naming Swedish Beer-Truck Terrorist
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2017, 03:48:55 PM »
Anyone taking bets his name will NOT be Bjorn Johansson, nor Nils Eriksson (or the like)?

Ahhh but then there is Sven, good old Sven. Was always a shady shady.... :geekdanc:
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macsak

Re: Countdown to Naming Swedish Beer-Truck Terrorist
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2017, 05:54:23 AM »
Anyone taking bets his name will NOT be Bjorn Johansson, nor Nils Eriksson (or the like)?

still no name...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/swedish-authorities-truck-attack-suspect-065945086.html

punaperson

Re: Countdown to Naming Swedish Beer-Truck Terrorist
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2017, 06:28:04 AM »
still no name...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/swedish-authorities-truck-attack-suspect-065945086.html
Yeah... all the stories have "39-year-old from Uzbekistan" and "in the Swedish security services files", but no name. Almost makes you wonder if it might be something along the lines of Mohammed Abdul Muslim. And, yes, I'm an "islamophobe", but I can make a rational case, with evidence, that that is a rational and justifiable fear, and not an unfounded irrational bias.

punaperson

Re: Countdown to Naming Swedish Beer-Truck Terrorist
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2017, 07:42:24 AM »
Today's no-update (on names) update:

"Jan Evensson of the Stockholm police told a televised news conference that the 39-year-old suspect's request for a residence permit was rejected in June 2016 but police could not find him to send him back to his native country because he was not at the address he had given. On Feb. 24, he was formally sought after by Swedish police. [So now we know that giving a false address buys you at least 10 months reprieve...]

"We know he has been sympathetic to extremist organizations," said Jonas Hysing of Sweden's national police. He declined to name the suspect, who had been arrested within hours of Friday's attack on shoppers in Stockholm.

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I've yet to read any official statement about why they refuse to name the suspect(s)(another unnamed person has been arrested).

punaperson

Re: Countdown to Naming Swedish Beer-Truck Terrorist
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2017, 06:39:08 AM »
Monday morning update:

We have a name! Unofficially, of course, as the police or other authorities will not confirm (at this point):

"Swedish court documents have confirmed the name of a 39-year-old Uzbek man being held in the truck attack in Stockholm as Rakhmat Akilov. [Okay, so not "Mohammed Abdul Muslim", but not "Bjorn Johansson" either... definitely a name that could confirm the paranoid delusions of the unredeemable anti-immigrant islamophobes in Sweden and elsewhere... "Rakhmat" is a muslim/arabic name meaning "blessing" or "sympathy, mercy, compassion, kindness". I'd hate to see what he'd do if he wasn't so sympathetic, merciful, compassionate, and kind!]

The Stockholm District Court says it has received a detention order in a case "regarding the incident at Drottninggatan in Stockholm" that occurred on April 7.

Akilov is suspected of killing four people and wounding 15 by crashing a stolen beer truck Friday into shoppers on pedestrian Drottninggatan street in downtown Stockholm.

Police have not confirmed his identity but say they are holding a 39-year-old Uzbek man on suspicion of driving the truck.

Court papers showed that Akilov, whose application for Swedish residency was turned down last year, is suspected of crimes against national security and terrorism. The court said it will decide Tuesday on his detention."

PLUS:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stockholm-attack-rakhmat-akilov-suspect-isis-whatsapp-messages-sweden-lorry-truck-before-after-a7676011.html

The man arrested on suspicion of killing four people by ramming a truck into crowds in Stockholm reportedly exchanged WhatsApp messages with Isis supporters before and after the rampage.

During an interrogation, Rakhmat Akilov said he had "achieved what he could achieve," a source told the Expressen newspaper.

The 39-year-old, from Uzbekistan, ​also said the "order" for the attack on Drottninggatan came directly from Isis in Syria.

He is alleged to have messaged an Isis supporter before and after the attack and confessed in the messages that he "ran over 10 people in the centre of Stockholm."

A second person was arrested over the weekend, and four others were being held by police. None of them have been identified.

oldfart

Re: Countdown to Naming Swedish Beer-Truck Terrorist
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2017, 10:21:38 AM »
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