LONDON - A foreigner arrested last week in Glasgow in connection with a failed Stockholm suicide bombing in December has been charged with terrorism offences, Scottish police said on Monday.
"Strathclyde Police can confirm that a 30-year-old man has been charged with offences under the Terrorism Act 2000," it said in a statement giving no further details. Last week police alleged that he aided "terrorist activity" outside Scotland.
Taymour Abdulwahab, a Swedish national of Middle Eastern descent, was killed in an attempted attack on downtown Stockholm after a bomb belt he was wearing went off prematurely.
Swedish officials believe he was preparing to attack a train station or department store at the height of the Christmas shopping season.
In January, the director of Iraq's anti-terrorism unit said Abdulwahab, who lived in Sweden in the 1990s, had received explosives training in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
Abdulwahab studied at a university in Luton, north of London, where he was believed to have become radicalised.
The Stockholm bombing was the latest in a string of attacks dating back to the 1990s by young Islamists educated in Britain, prompting critics to say London has failed to do enough to tackle militancy.
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