Stockholm: Sweden`s intelligence agency Sapo said Monday that it had made two arrests as part of a crackdown on radicalisation and recruitment of Islamic militants planning to fight in Iraq and Syria.
"The Security Service raided two locations in Sweden, targeting suspected terrorist recruitment and training," the agency said in a statement.
The raids took place in the capital Stockholm and the central Swedish town of Orebro.
According to public broadcaster SR a 45-year old man was arrested in Orebro. Police said the town was the fourth largest contributor of jihadist fighters from Sweden after the country`s three largest cities Stockholm, Malmoe and Gothenburg.
Sapo said it had found links between a mosque in the town and another mosque in Eskilstuna, east of Stockholm, "which has served as meeting points".
"We want to point out that it`s not the religious communities which are involved," the agency added, saying that "criminal individuals" had used the premises and recruited mainly in cafes and other meeting places.
Public prosecutor Ronnie Jacobsson told SR that the Stockholm arrest was linked to the sharing of "information on the manufacture of explosives with a person in Syria".
According to Sapo, 110 people are known to have travelled to Syria and Iraq from Sweden to join Islamic militant groups but that the figure may be as high as 300.
