Stockholm Bomber's Tape Released

A man is heard describing the Islamic state as a "reality" in Europe and in Sweden.

He was due to turn 29 on Sunday and had a wife and three young children who still live in Luton. Neighbours said they had seen him in the town as little as two and a half weeks ago.

Abdulwahab tried to set fire to a car bomb packed with gas canisters in a busy shopping street in the Swedish capital on Saturday. The car caught fire and the bomber fled the scene before blowing himself up 15 minutes later, injuring two bystanders.

He said: "Stop your drawings of our prophet...No more oppression against Islam or Muslims will be tolerated in any way or by any means."

The voice is thought to be of Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, a British university graduate who until recently was living in Luton.

He spoke hurriedly but calmly and quietly and cleared his voice several times during the message that lasted less than a minute.

The recording states: "Now the Islamic state has been created. We now exist here in Europe and in Sweden. We are a reality. I don't want to say more about this. Our actions will speak for themselves."

He added: "We are not a lie, or imagination. We are real."

He also referred to the depiction of the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog in a 2007 cartoon by a Swedish artist which enraged many Muslims.