(Reuters) A Swedish court convicted a man on Friday of plotting to carry out a bombing in Sweden in the name of Islamic State, sentencing him to seven years in prison followed by expulsion from the country.
Evidence showed David Idrisson, a 46-year-old Uzbek citizen who has lived in Sweden since 2008 and has permanent residency in the country, had obtained chemicals that could be used to make explosives, consulted instructions for bombmaking and intended to carry out an attack, the Solna district court said.
Two other men were acquitted of those charges because of lack of strong enough evidence, the court said in a statement. But one of them, Bakhtiyor Umarov, a Uzbek citizen, was convicted with Idrisson of helping to finance Islamic State.
