Sweden’s prosecution authority said Thursday it had charged three men with planning a terror attack in Sweden, warning the plot could have caused serious damage had it not been prevented. The three are accused of “obtaining and storing large amounts of chemicals and other equipment with the aim of killing and wounding other people,” the prosecution authority said in a statement. The men were also charged, along with three other people, with financing terrorism. Prosecutors accuse them of sending money abroad to fund ISIS’s operations. The trial is expected to open on January 7. The men, aged between 30 and 46, come from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, two of the five Central Asian countries known as “the stans” tucked between India, Russia and China. The status of the accused in Sweden was not stated.
