REUTERS/Stringer TASHKENT (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s security services passed information on Rakhmat Akilov, the man accused of ramming a truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm last week, to the West before the deadly attack, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said on Friday. Kamilov told reporters Akilov had been recruited by the Islamic State militant group […]
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Suspect in Stockholm attack that killed 4 & injured 15 is ISIS member – Uzbekistan FM
Published time: 14 Apr, 2017 07:19Edited time: 14 Apr, 2017 07:30 Uzbekistan’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the suspect in the Stockholm truck attack, an Uzbek citizen, had been investigated for having terrorist sympathies. He apparently had called on his fellow Uzbeks to go to Syria and join Islamic State. Read more The statement said […]