Suicide bomber kills self, two others suffer minor injuries--wanted "children, daughters and sisters to die"

A car bomb exploded in Stockholm, Sweden earlier today--two people suffered minor injuries. Nearby, a suicide bomber succeeded in only in ending his own life in a busy area filled with Christmas shoppers. Luckily, only one of his six pipe bombs exploded. There was also a bag of nails on the bomber's corpse.

Witnesses say that had the potential killer yelled something in Arabic before setting off his bomb.

About ten minutes before the explosions, a Swedish news agency received an email decrying Swedish troops in Afghanistan and a cartoon by artist Lars Vilks which attached the head of Muhammad to a dog. A warning was included in an audio attachment, which declared, "Now your children, daughters and sisters die like our brothers' and sisters' children die." He also stated, "Our actions will speak for themselves. As long as you don't stop your war against Islam and degrading the prophet and your stupid support of that pig Vilks."

One source said that had all of the brute's bombs exploded, it would have been a massacre.

Doug Ross has more.

We live in a dangerous world.

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