Swedish intelligence has confirmed that the Tunisian Muslim arrested yesterday with a loaded handgun in his carry-on luggage was indeed planning to hijack the plane and crash it into a US embassy in Europe.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish man of Tunisian origin, arrested on suspicion he was about to hijack a plane, was planning to crash the aircraft into a U.S. embassy in Europe, Swedish intelligence sources said on Saturday.

The man was arrested on Thursday — almost a year after the September 11 hijack attacks on the United States — when a gun was found in his luggage as he boarded a flight to Britain from a small airport west of Stockholm.

Police were looking for four more men, including an explosives expert, who worked with him on the plan, the sources said.

“We know for sure that the plan was to crash the plane into a U.S. embassy in Europe,” a military intelligence source told Reuters.

His name is Kerim Chatty:

A Swedish LGF reader emailed to tell us that Chatty is an actor who had a part in the 1997 Swedish film “9 Millimeters,” with a long history of crime and social problems; his criminal record includes assault, drunk driving, organized crime and illegal possession of firearms. In 1999 he was convicted and sentenced to one year in prison for aggravated assault against an American Marine posted at the American Embassy in Stockholm. During the last two years he let his beard grow and became a devout Muslim, spending much time at the Stockholm Mosque. (This, of course, is sheer coincidence and has nothing whatsoever to do with any hijacking plots.)

If you read Swedish, the full article is here at Expressen.