Swedish bomber had helpers - YouTube

Sweeden: A message from the Stockholm suicide bomber was posted on YouTube two days after he blew himself up in an attempt to wreak carnage among Christmas shoppers, suggesting he had accomplices, media reported Monday.

Taimour Abdulwahab, a 29-year-old sports therapist, had sent an audio message to Swedish intelligence service Saepo and the TT news agency minutes before the suicide attack in central Stockholm on December 11.

Abdulwahab's message was not officially released in its entirety until December 15, but two days earlier a full version of the clip, in Arabic, English and Swedish, was posted on his YouTube account Mona123Timo, the Aftonbladet daily reported.

"The person who did this must therefore have had access to the material," the paper pointed out, adding that Abdulwahab's account on the video-sharing site had been in use for more than four years.

Swedish media also reported last month that sound analysis of the audio message showed he had at least one accomplice, since someone could be heard breathing in the background.

Stockholm, AFP