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Man admits to terror plans against parliament

One of the two men who are on trial in Germany for planning to carry out a terrorist attack on the parliament building in Stockholm admits that he had such plans, reports Ekot on Sveriges Radio.

Received Orders from IS: Kill Ten in Sweden's Parliament

The two men were to open fire in the Swedish Parliament and kill at least ten people. They were prepared to die a martyr's death themselves. The assignment is said to have come from IS as revenge for the Koran burnings. The trial is now beginning in Germany against the men linked to Islamist extremism.

Sweden became a symbol of Islamophobic West

Provoked by the Koran burnings, the two men planned a terrorist attack on the Swedish Parliament. Now the trial against them is starting. The Koran burnings made many Muslims in Germany upset. But the anger was not as much directed towards Sweden as towards the Western world, says researcher Lars Wiegold.