Failed Suicide Bombing Attempt in Denmark

[Alan]

Police in Denmark have detained a man suspected of attempting to blow himself up in a busy hotel in the country's capital city of Copenhagen, Danish news agencies reported Friday.

The reports indicated that the suspect was arrested in a park near the Jorgensens Hotel, where he had attempted the suicide bombing.

The Jorgensens Hotel is located close to Copenhagen's busiest commuter and regional train station.

At the time of his arrest, the suspect was reportedly bleeding from minor injuries on his face and arms believed to be from the explosion at the hotel.

Reports quoted unnamed officials as saying that they believed the suspect had fled the scene after his explosive devise blew up prematurely in one of the bathrooms of the hotel.

None other than the bomber himself was injured in the attempted suicide attack, the Danish media reported. They added that an investigation has been launched into the incident.

Soon after the explosion, police cordoned off the immediate area surrounding the hotel and are still searching for any further explosive devices and evidence.

There is still no information about the identity or the nationality of the alleged suicide bomber.

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Id=1415134&SM=1

No virgins for him. Although Danish prisons are nice and cosy I suspect.

Not the first time Denmark has been targeted

A car bomb outside Denmark's embassy in Pakistan killed at least nine people, less than two months after al-Qaeda's deputy leader called for attacks on Danish targets.

Danish and Pakistani officials didn't immediately say who exploded the bomb today, which crushed part of the embassy's perimeter wall and pockmarked its facade with shrapnel. The attack killed a Brazilian woman working at the embassy and injured 25 people in the neighborhood, officials told reporters.

A Danish citizen of Pakistani origin and two Pakistani employees also were killed in the attack, Agence France-Presse reported, citing the Danish Foreign Ministry. ``At least'' nine people died, AFP reported, without saying where it got the information.

The bombing, the first at a diplomatic mission in Pakistan in more than two years, came six weeks after al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Muslims to ``cause damage to Denmark in order to show support for our prophet.'' He was responding to the publication by Danish newspapers of cartoons lampooning the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, in 2005 and again in February.

The first publication of the caricatures ignited protest in Pakistan, which is more than 90 percent Muslim, and elsewhere across the Islamic world. In February, after Danish officials reported a suspected murder plot against one of the cartoonists, Kurt Westergaard, Danish papers reprinted his image of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.

Norway Closes Embassy

Norway, which al-Zawahiri also mentioned in his appeal, said today it had closed its embassy in Islamabad, located about a block from the blast site.

The bombing comes as Pakistan has been trying to negotiate peace deals with Taliban guerrillas who have consolidated their grip on several rural regions near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

The attack continues violence in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, following a week-long battle in July, when army troops seized the city's Red Mosque from armed Islamic militants.

Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said al-Qaeda and the Taliban militant movement, based in Pakistan and Afghanistan, were likely to be behind today's attack. One embassy employee was killed and three injured, he said.

`Attack Against Denmark'

The bomb is ``an attack against Denmark and the values we stand for,'' Danish Deputy Prime Minister Bendt Bendtsen told Denmark's TV2 television. While Denmark's government conceded that the cartoons' publication had offended many Muslims, it said it would not censor freedom of expression.

Bendtsen and other Danish officials praised Pakistan's role in responding to the bombing. Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said ``the devastating attack'' had shamed the country......

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[TonyHawk]

Why don't they just force him to go back where he came from

then once inside with the rest of them... hit the detonate button

 

[LazyLion]

Somebody needs to go back and re-read Suicide Bombing for Dummies!

 

[Sting]

Somebody needs to go back and re-read Suicide Bombing for Dummies!

Practice makes perfect!

 

[Pitbull]

How useless must you be if you can't even kill yourself?

 

[Lounger]

How useless must you be if you can't even kill yourself?

Sounds like he went in to the bathroom to adjust it or take it off.

 

[ponder]

Sounds like he went in to the bathroom to adjust it or take it off.

I reckon he went to the bathroom for a last fap just in case there aren't any of the 72 virgins he was promised in paradise. Probably got a little over excited (apparently imminent death does that, ask the strangulation crowd) and prematurely detonated the bomb when he prematurely ...

 

[alloytoo]

I reckon he went to the bathroom for a last fap just in case there aren't any of the 72 virgins he was promised in paradise. Probably got a little over excited (apparently imminent death does that, ask the strangulation crowd) and prematurely detonated the bomb when he prematurely ...

Lack of oxygen to the brain does that apparently, but then that was (O2 lack) evidently his natural condition.