{"id":358611,"date":"2018-04-27T06:40:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T05:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/stockholm-terror-attacker-expressed-support-for-islamic-state-a-full-year-before-attack\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T06:40:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T05:40:34","slug":"stockholm-terror-attacker-expressed-support-for-islamic-state-a-full-year-before-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/stockholm-terror-attacker-expressed-support-for-islamic-state-a-full-year-before-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm Terror Attacker Expressed Support for Islamic State a Full Year Before Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Rakhmat Akilov, the failed asylum seeker currently on trial for killing five and injuring 14 others in the Stockholm terror attack, allegedly expressed Islamic State sympathies well before the incident, according to a witness.<\/p>\n<p>The Stockholm court heard a Muslim male, identified only by his first name Darius, claims that he met Akilov in March of 2016 at a Swedish language course and had accompanied\u00a0him several times to a local mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Darius told the court that around a year before the attack, Akilov confided to him that the Islamic State terror group was a \u201cbig hope\u201d for Muslims, Swedish broadcaster\u00a0SVT\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said the Islamic State is a big hope for all Muslims.\u00a0And he said we must join Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\u00a0I said, \u2018For what reason?\u00a0He is self-proclaimed, he is not entitled to proclaim himself to Caliph, no writer has acknowledged him.\u00a0And above all, he calls for violence,&#8217;\u201d Darius said.<\/p>\n<p>Akilov was denied asylum by the Swedish migration authority and was told he would be deported in December of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Darius, who was still in contact with Akilov at the time, said: \u201cInside, he was like a lost person.\u00a0He gave me that impression.\u00a0After I was told that he had begun taking drugs. I stopped caring for him.\u00a0Especially when he began to express such reactionary thoughts about terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the news of the terror attack in Stockholm\u2019s\u00a0Drottninggatan shopping district broke on April 7th, 2017, Darius said he first thought of\u00a0Akilov. \u201cIt\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/stockholm-terror-attacker-expressed-support-for-islamic-state-a-full-year-before-attack\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rakhmat Akilov, the failed asylum seeker currently on trial for killing five and injuring 14 others in the Stockholm terror attack, allegedly expressed Islamic State sympathies well before the incident, according to a witness. The Stockholm court heard a Muslim male, identified only by his first name Darius, claims that he met Akilov in March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}