and she tried to fool authorities by dressing like a nun! Notice the names of their three kids. Nothing odd there at all.
From The Daily Mail:
Last updated at 1:06 AM on 15th September 2011
The wife of a suicide bomber has been arrested on suspicion of helping her husband bring terror to the streets of Sweden in the run-up to Christmas last year.
Mona Thwany, the 28-year-old wife of Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly who killed himself and injured two people in Stockholm last December, was arrested on Tuesday in Luton.
It is thought she was arrested for her suspected involvement in her 28-year-old husband’s bombing and not because of any new plot.
Arrested: Mona Thwany pictured with her husband, the Stockholm bomber Taimour Abdulwahab Al-AbdalyAbdulwahab, an Iraqi-born Swede who studied at a British university, killed himself and injured two others when he detonated explosives in a crowded shopping street in the Swedish capital.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ‘At 6.15am on Tuesday morning, counter-terrorism officers raided a residential address in Luton.
‘A 28-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of the preparation of terrorist acts. She has been bailed until mid-November.’
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Officers detained Miss Thwany at her home in Luton as they searched two properties. She was released on police bail until November.
It is thought Abdulwahab aimed to kill and maim hundreds, but, luckily for the many Christmas shoppers milling about nearby, the bombs went off early and incompletely.
Abdulwahab was the only fatality, on December 11, while just two passers-by were injured.
Loving father: Mona Thwany and husband Taimour Abdulwahab Al-AbdalyAfterwards, Miss Thwany said she knew nothing of her husband’s terrorist activities or his radicalisation.
The pair met at the University of Bedfordshire, where they both studied. The psychology graduate told how he was a loving father to their three children – Amira, four, Aisha, two, and Osama, six months – and adored his pet canaries.
Just before the bombing, he told her he was going to Scandinavia to see relatives and celebrate his father Thamer’s birthday.
Preparation: CCTV footage of Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly moments before the Swedish blast
Impact: Smoke billows out over the crowds after the December 11 explosionAfter the bombing, fears arose that Abdulwahab had lured a number of young Muslims into his extremist net during the nine years he spent in Luton.
A beauty stylist who ran her own business, Miss Thawny is the daughter of a Romanian Christian mother, Mihaela, and an Iraqi Muslim father, Abdul.
Abdulwahab, who worked as a sports therapist in Luton, sent his wife an MP3 file ten minutes before he blew himself up.
She opened the message, which was the same one sent to the Swedish authorities, after the attack. It said: ‘To my wife, I am sorry and I hope you can forgive me.’
Speaking after the incident, Miss Thwany said: ‘He disliked the decadent side of society here. But he never gave off any clues that he was going to blow himself up. I totally condemn terrorism.’
