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Suspect was expelled from Luton mosque for trying to recruit extremists

Suspect was expelled from Luton mosque for trying to recruit extremists

Bomber visited radical 'Judgement Day' websites

Iraqi-born Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, 28

thrown out of a Luton mosque

blew up his car, then himself

spent much of the last decade in Luton

living there with his wife Mona Thwany and three young children.

'It was the general public, worshippers, that brought it to the committee's attention that there was someone in here teaching something that is alien to Islam - extremist views,'

Last year Muslim protesters disrupted a homecoming march of soldiers returning from Afghanistan.

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On the page, he says he is a member of the group Islamic Caliphate State, which seeks to establish Islamic rule worldwide and adds: ‘I’m a Muslim and I’m proud.'

Neighbour Noreen Hussain, 30, said the person who lived at the house at the centre of police activity was a family man.

Although she did not know him by name, she said: 'We just said hello every so often. He had two girls and one boy, and the boy was born this year. 'He loved his kids so much. He used to play with them all the time in the garden on the trampoline.'

referred to the presence of 500 Swedish troops among the Allies in Afghanistan and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed drawn three years ago by Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks.

his children were told ‘Daddy loves them’

Immediately after the email arrived, Abdulwahab’s car burst into flames on a busy street in the city centre, with a series of explosions following from gas canisters stashed inside the vehicle.Around ten minutes later Abdulwahab shouted in Arabic before detonating a pipe bomb which killed him and wounded two passers-by.

More than 250 people have joined a group set up on Facebook titled 'RIP Taimour Abdulwahab our brother and friend'.

THE BOMBER'S CHILLING LETTER The following is the full text of an email sent to a Swedish news agency before the blasts:'In the name of God the merciful. Prayers and peace to the Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him.'Thanks to Lars Vilks and his paintings of the Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him, and your soldiers in Afghanistan and your silence on all this so shall your children, daughters, brothers and sisters die in the same way as our brothers and sisters and children die.'Now the Islamic states have fulfilled what they promised you. We are here in Europe and in Sweden, we are a reality, not an invention, I will not say more about this.'Our actions will speak for themselves, as long as you do not end your war against Islam and humiliation of the prophet and your stupid support for the pig Vilks.'To all Muslims in Sweden I say: stop fawning and humiliating yourselves for a life of humiliation is far from Islam. Help your brothers and sisters and do not fear anything or anyone, only the God you worship.'To my family, try to forgive me. I could not sit and watch while all the injustice happens against Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him, when the pig Vilks did what he did.'Forgive me for my lies. I never went to the Middle East to work or earn money, I went there for jihad. I hope that you can understand me some time. I could never have told you all this or to anyone.' 

Al-Abdaly listed himself on Muslim dating website Muslima as a physical therapy graduate from Bedfordshire University.He wrote on Muslima that he was born in Baghdad and moved to Sweden in 1992 before coming to the UK in 2001.He said he was married in 2004 and had two young girls.'I want to get married again, and would like to have a big family. My wife agreed to this,' he wrote.He said he was looking for a practising Sunni Muslim who loves children and 'wants to please Allah before me'.He described himself as economically 'OK' and said that when he had extra money he gave it to the needy.'In the future, am looking for to move to an Arabic country and settle down there...' al-Abdaly added.

Sweden has a military presence in Afghanistan and a Swedish cartoon that depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a dog enraged the Muslim world.

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