1. Mass stabbing attack at IKEA in Sweden, almost certainly by a jihadi.
(As I see it, an attack at IKEA can only be from 2 sources and as he didn’t go after the staff, it almost certainly isn’t someone who tried to assemble their furniture)
2. U.S. consulate in Turkey targeted as wave of attacks kills nine
By Yesim Dikmen and Seyhmus Cakan
ISTANBUL/DIYABAKIR (Reuters) – Two women shot at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Monday and at least eight people were killed in a wave of separate attacks on Turkish security forces, weeks after Ankara launched a crackdown on Islamic State, Kurdish and far-left militants.
The NATO member has been in a heightened state of alert since starting its “synchronized war on terror” last month, including air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq. It has also rounded up hundreds of suspected militants at home.
A far-left group that killed a Turkish security guard in a 2013 suicide bombing of the U.S. embassy in Ankara claimed it was involved in Monday’s attack.
The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Turkey, said one of its members was involved in the attack, and called Washington the “arch enemy” of the people of the Middle East and the world.
A variety of reports dealing with the Ikea stabbings, note they contradict each other with some suggesting one arrest, another reporting two arrested, others suggesting the victims and the attacker were known to each other, denied at other reports…but, as expected…reports agree – not terror related…
via local report Västerås
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via Västerås: Direct link to video of capture of suspect (not helpful)
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ChannelNewsAsia adds
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ArutzSheva: Two Killed in Knife Attack in Swedish IKEA
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NYDailyNews: 2 dead, 1 injured in stabbing at IKEA store in Sweden: report
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FWIW…a comment at UKDailyMail –
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UKDailyMail: Man and woman stabbed to death in knife attack at IKEA store in Sweden