Key information points:
* The bomber has been identified as Taimour Abdalwahhab al-Abdaly, a 28-year old man of Iraqi origin who moved to Sweden in 1992. He leaves a wife and three children. See here and here for profiles.
* The bomber sent an audio statement to a Swedish news agency shortly before the blast. The recording is available here.
* In the statement the bomber says he recently traveled to the Middle East “for jihad”. His Facebook page reportedly contained recent pictures of him in Jordan.
* The bomber lived for a while in Luton, UK, a city with a well known community of radical Islamists.
* The bomber’s facebook page reportedly carried gradually more jihadi videos starting in the spring of 2010
* A Swedish explosives expert who examined pictures from the scene described the bomb as amateurish.
* The jihadi internet forum Shumukh has several threads devoted to the incident (see e.g. here, here, here, here, here and here). The bomber is referred to by other forum members as “our brother“, but this is a standard phrase and does not necessarily indicate a prior connection. So far there are no claims of responsibility by a known organization or jihadi media entity.
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