By Simon Johnson and Patrick Lannin
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - police looking house in the South of England Monday for investigations into two explosions in Stockholm, which the Swedish authorities said that they dealt with as an act of terrorism.
Car jump in a busy shopping district on Saturday followed by afternoon minutes later by a second breath nearby who killed a man, the suspect Bombardier and injured two others.
Swedish daily Expressen said Monday the dead man had planned compensation three devices, including at the main railway station and the other in a department store.
The man was appointed on a website intelligence Taymour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi who studied in the United Kingdom. Police have not identified him.
These explosions following nerve months in Europe after a U.S. travel alert on possible attacks by militants and a bid failed by a group focused on Yemen al Qaeda use air cargo to send parcel bombs through Europe to America.
After reports that the man had an entry of Facebook and a profile on a dating website Muslim who said that he had spent time in Great Britain, the British police said were a house in the city of Luton in the Act of terrorism. The House was surrounded.
"No arrests is made and non-hazardous materials found", said a statement to the police.
The incident began when a car burst into flames of area occupied with buyers of Christmas in the centre of Stockholm, followed by explosions inside the car caused by gas canisters.
The second explosion, about 300 metres (yards) and 10 - 15 minutes later, a man and wounded two people.
Expressen, citing an anonymous source has reported that security policy considers one of the devices exploded, killing the man.
The man had planned to blow up his car but had also 12 strapped him and a bomb in a backpack pipe bombs, he said.
"It is clear that he attempted to create as much chaos and would be detrimental to as many people as possible," Expressen quoted a police source said.
Shortly before the blasts, TT Swedish news agency has received a letter from referring to approximately 500 soldiers Sweden Afghanistan, and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed attracted by the Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks threat.
TT news agency "our actions will be speak for themselves, as long as you do not terminate your war against Islam and the humiliation of the Prophet and your stupid support for Vilks, pork" cited a man say in a record.
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The Swedish media, basing their information on the car number plate widely reported that they have found entry man on Facebook and an entry on the Muslim dating Web site.
Swedish newspapers have not been appointed him, but also group intelligence SITE based United States, Islamist monitors Web sites, said member of Shumukh al-Islam posted a message identifying the bomber Sunday assumed as Taymour Abdulwahab and naming as Taymour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly media reports quoted.
A position in a Muslim dating website shown Abdaly was married and a father of two daughters and seeking a second wife.
In this position, he wrote that he was born in Baghdad and moved to the Sweden in 1992 and he studied at the University of Bedfordshire in Luton, who has a large Muslim community.
Police refused to comment on the details.
U.S. terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann told Reuters that the suspect had been identified on the normally used by militant groups, online forums, including al-Qaeda, as "Holy Warrior" Taimur Abdelwahab.
Kohlmann said he suspected that the attack was "a terroir local extremist who may or may not have connections to an actual terrorist organization."
The Swedish media said that the man lives in the small town of Tranas, about 200 km (124 miles) South-West of Stockholm. Police searched a house in the city newspaper.
The Facebook page called Taymour Abdulwahab had an image of two men profile waving black flag with Arabic writing and video Islamic martyr.
A Facebook page titled "RIP Taimour Abdulwahab our brother and friend" have also been implemented.
(Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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