Sunday, December 12, 2010

Bomb Blasts Shake Swedish Capital

This is another sad news about terrorism. This Saturday, a terrorist suicide bombing has created horror in downtown in Stockholm. The news have reminded the world once again about the danger all the U.S. supporting countries are in. There were two injuries and one death.
 The picture shows the corner of Olof Palmes Gata and Drottninggatan in central Stockholm where the car bomb exploded.

Around 5 p.m. local time on December 11, SÄPO and Swedish news agency TT received violent threats in the form of emails and sound files. Ten minutes later, a white Audi exploded in the very heart of Stockholm's shopping district, where Christmas shopping was in full swing.
Only a few minutes later and a couple of blocks away, a man that SÄPO has since called a "terrorist" set off a bomb strapped to his own body, killing himself, but injuring no one else.
The bomber, Iraqi-born Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, said in his threats to TT and SÄPO that he was targeting Swedish civilians because of Sweden's participation in the war in Afghanistan as well as the country's non-response to the Muhammad cartoons drawn by a Swedish artist that caused widespread protests in the Muslim world.

 The fact that the terrorist was angered by not only Sweden's involvement in the war in Afghanistan, but also a cartoon of Muhammad, shows that it is not only the government and military who should be careful. The terrorists are also triggered by the media, such as cartoons in this case. This is an alert for everyone. The terrorist society can be angered by many things that seems like a joke to many other people.
This concerns me about the media of America, where many things including the Muslim has been used for humor and entertainment.

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