An Uzbek asylum seeker who confessed to wanting to mow down “infidels” in an April 2017 Stockholm truck attack that killed five people goes on trial Tuesday accused of terrorism. Akilov, born in 1978, was arrested in a Stockholm suburb hours after his attack thanks to public transport video surveillance footage, and confessed. Uzbek authorities also claim they shared intelligence with Sweden about Akilov prior to the attack, but Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp rejects that notion. Swedish intelligence agency Sapo had long warned against the possibility of a truck attack, but no one really believed it would ever happen. In December 2010, a man blew himself up in a suicide attack in central Stockholm that lightly injured two passersby.

Source: Egypt Independent February 11, 2018 07:07 UTC