Jihad in Sweden is the name of a group which claimed responsibility for an aborted firebomb attack on an Iraqi polling station in Sweden in December 2005.  In addition, the group allegedly had plans to bomb a Christian organization's headquarters in response to a pastor's negative comments about the Prophet Mohammed.  Although the group claimed to be acting as a faction of al-Qaeda, there is no proof to support this supposition. <P><br /><br />In their lone attack, the members of Jihad in Sweden attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail through a window at a Iraqi polling station in Kista, Sweden.  The station had been set up for expatriate-Iraqis living in Sweden to vote in the December 2005 Iraqi parliament elections.  Three men carried out the attack and broke a window at the station before being scared off by guards.  Investigators found numerous other incendiary devices on the perpetrators' escape route, but the attackers were not immediately apprehended.  <P><br /><br />In a claim of responsibility sent to a Swedish newspaper and postmarked a day before the attack, the previously unheard of al-Qaeda organization for Jihad in Sweden claimed that the attack was merely a "precursor," and warned people against participating in the election or going near polling stations.  The letter was signed by a person calling himself the "highest spokesman for al-Qaeda in Sweden."  Despite this warning, no further attacks occurred. <P><br /><br />Several weeks later, Swedish security forces arrested three suspects in connection to the attack.  The men were Nima Nikain Ganjin, an Iranian-Swede, Albert Ramic, a Bosnian-Swede, and Andreas Fahlen, an ethnic Swede.  The three men were put on trial and charged with "attempted terrorist offenses" and conspiracy to commit terrorism.  During the course of the trial it emerged that the three men were not al-Qaeda members but were inspired by the group and admired the concept of jihad.  The men admitted that they had also planned to attack the Word of Life Church, a fundamentalist Christian organization whose pastor had allegedly called the Prophet Mohammed a "pedophile."  The attack was aborted because the men could not afford to travel to the church, belying the amateur nature of the group. <P><br /><br />Ultimately the the three men were convicted on all counts and sentenced to varying terms in jail ranging from eight months to three years.  <br />