Danes Foil Terrorists

1 suspect in Denmark terror case released, 3 held
Danish police officers stand guard as one of four suspect arrested on suspicion of planning a shooting attack on the office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad arrives at a court in Glostup, south of Copenhagen, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. The Wednesday arrests rattled Danes and brought renewed attention to simmering anger at the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which has been the target of several attacks and threats since publishing cartoons of Muhammad in 2005, in what it ca...

1 suspect in Denmark terror case released, 3 held
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - An Iraqi asylum seeker accused of plotting a shooting attack on the Copenhagen office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was freed Thursday due to an apparent lack of evidence. Three other men were ordered to remain in custody. A Danish intelligence official told The Associated Press that the Iraqi man arrested in Denmark remains a suspect. The official gave no other details and spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized...

Iraqi Asylum Seeker Among Terror Suspects Arrested in Denmark
Thursday, December 30, 2010 By Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press The building housing the Copenhagen office of Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that made international headlines after printing cartoons featuring Muhammad. (AP File Photo/Polfoto, Niels Hougaard) Copenhagen, Denmark (AP) - One of five men arrested possibly hours before a planned shooting attack on the office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad is to be released, a Danish intelligence official said...

Denmark: Terror suspects to face custody hearing
Copenhagen, Denmark — One of five men arrested possibly hours before a planned shooting attack on the office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad is to be released, a Danish intelligence official said Thursday. The official told the AP that the man, an Iraqi asylum seeker who was arrested in Denmark, is being freed but remains a suspect. He gave no other details. Three other men still face hearings in Copenhagen on Thursday. The Wednesday arrests rattled Danes an...

'Mumbai-style' massacre plot foiled in Denmark
Scandinavian intelligence agencies said they had foiled a "Mumbai-style" plot by Islamic Extremists to massacre staff at a Danish newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. Denmark's PET intelligence service said five suspects had been arrested, preventing an imminent assault on the Copenhagen offices of the Jyllands-Posten daily, where the attackers wanted to kill as many staff as possible. Four men were arrested in Denmark while a spokeswoman for Swedish intelligence agency ...

Denmark and Sweden foil 'Mumbai-style' massacre plot
Denmark and Sweden said they had foiled a "Mumbai-style" plot by Islamic Extremists to massacre staff at a Danish newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. Denmark's PET intelligence service said five suspects had been arrested and a submachine gun seized, preventing an imminent assault on the Copenhagen offices of the Jyllands-Posten daily. The gunmen had wanted to kill as many staff as possible, said a statement from the agency. Four men were arrested in Denmark while a spo...

5 seized in plot to attack Danish papers
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Five men were arrested Wednesday in a plot to strike Danish Newspapers that printed Prophet Mohammed cartoons, Danish and Swedish officials said. "An imminent terror attack has been foiled," said Jakob Scharf, chief of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service. The agency said searches revealed at least one machine gun with a silencer, live ammunition and "plastic strips that can be used as handcuffs," The New York Times reported. Scharf said the suspect...

Arrests foil newspaper massacre plot over Mohammed cartoon
Scandinavian intelligence chiefs said they had foiled a plot to massacre staff at a Danish newspaper which published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and had arrested five suspects. The head of Denmark's PET intelligence service said that his officers had detained four men while a spokeswoman for Swedish intelligence agency Saepo said a fifth man had been arrested in Stockholm in connection with the same plot against the Copenhagen-based Jyllands-Posten daily. Several of the suspects could be...

Five Held For Plotting Attack on Danish (News) Paper
Source: Reuters Copenhagen (Reuters) - Danish police arrested five people suspected of planning a Mumbai-style attack to kill as many people as possible in a building housing a Danish newspaper that outraged Muslims in 2005 with cartoons of Prophet Mohammad. "It is our assessment that this is a Militant Islamist group and they have links to international Terrorist networks," Jakob Scharf, head of Denmark's PET security police, told a news conference on Wednesday. Police found a machine gun wit...

Five Accused in Jihadist Plot Targeting Danish Newspapers
Police arrested five men in Sweden and Denmark on Wednesday in connection with a terror plot against two Danish Newspapers that published cartoons in 2005 depicting the Prophet Mohammad. The Danish security service PET said authorities there moved to prevent "an imminent terror attack, in which several of the suspects can be labeled Militant Islamists with links to international terror networks." Danish officials said four of the suspects had entered the country Tuesday night or early Wednesday...

Terrorist plan to slaughter newspaper staff is thwarted
Five men planning to shoot as many people as possible at the office of a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were arrested yesterday in an operation that halted an imminent attack, intelligence officials said. • Jyllands-Posten daily's Copenhagen office. Picture: AFP Denmark's intelligence service said it arrested four men in two Raids in suburbs of Copenhagen, and seized an automatic weapon, a silencer and ammunition. Swedish police said they arrested a 37-year...

Authorities Foil Denmark Terror Plot
Radical Muslims may have been just hours away from launching a bloody Terrorist Attack on a famous Danish newspaper on Wednesday when authorities in Denmark and Sweden foiled their plot. At a joint news conference, top Danish and Swedish security officials talked about their police thwarting an alleged Terrorist Attack by Tunisian, Lebanese and Iraqi Muslim Extremists. The Swedish and Danish officials said four of the men were arrested Wednesday in Copenhagen and one in Stockholm, Sweden. They...

5 Arrested in Danish Terror Plot
Things are less rotten in Denmark thanks to police arresting five men suspected of plotting a terror attack. This is just the latest in a series of arrests that is sweeping through parts of Western Europe and Scandinavia. The five men taken into Custody were in possession of a variety of weapons, including submachine guns equipped with silencers. Authorities say they were planning a Mumbai-style attack on the offices of the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, noted for their publishing a cartoon...

Danish court charges 3 men with attempted terrorism
By Mette Fraende GLOSTRUP, Denmark | Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:55am EST GLOSTRUP, Denmark (Reuters) - Three men suspected of planning a deadly attack on a Danish newspaper appeared on Thursday before a court which charged them with an attempted act of Terrorism and possession of weapons, officials said. Police detained four men in Denmark and one in Sweden on Wednesday on suspicion of plotting an assault on offices of Jyllands-Posten, the Danish daily that outraged Muslims in 2005 with cartoons of P...

Five held in Danish 'terror plot'
The head of Denmark's intelligence services, Jakob Scharf (r) briefs Journalist about an alleged plot to attack the Copenhagen offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. Photograph: Christensen Mathias/AP Police in Denmark and Sweden arrested five men today on suspicion of planning a "Mumbai-style" attack on the Danish newspaper that printed cartoons portraying the prophet Muhammad. In a series of Raids, Danish police seized an automatic weapon, a silencer, ammunition and plastic strips that ...

Police Arrest 5 in Danish Terror Plot
The New York Times reports: The authorities in Sweden and Denmark announced the arrests of five men on Wednesday suspected of plotting an “imminent” attack on a Danish newspaper that set off Protests around the world when it published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. At a news conference in Copenhagen, Jakob Scharf, the head of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, said the suspects had planned a “Mumbai-style” attack, referring to the 2008 assault by multip

Denmark: Attack over prophet cartoons thwarted
FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2009 file photo, a sign is seen above a building... Copenhagen, Denmark (AP) - Police in Denmark and Sweden said they thwarted a Terrorist Attack possibly hours before it was to begin Wednesday, arresting five men they say planned to shoot as many people as possible in a Copenhagen building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Four suspects were arrested in the suburbs of Copenhagen, including a Tunisian, a man from Lebanon and...

Copenhagen Terror Probe: Investigators Look into Possible Ties to 'Mickey Mouse Project'
The suspected Terrorists in this week's apparent foiled plot in Denmark have rejected allegations they planned to attack the Copenhagen offices of Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, the paper responsible for publishing caricatures of Muhammad in 2005. The plot is reminiscent of a similar plan to attack the paper in 2009. Since the 2005 publication by Danish daily Jyllands-Posten's of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, hardly a week has gone by in which al-Qaida or another Militant group hasn't ca...

Denmark terrorism plot thwarted with arrest of five suspected militants, authorities say
Reporting from Beirut and London — Denmark Jyllands-Posten, Muhammad cartoon, Terrorism: Five suspected Militants arrested in Denmark terrorism plot Scandinavian authorities thwarted what they describe as a Terrorist Attack in Denmark targeting the newspaper that published the infamous caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, arresting five suspected Islamic Militants Wednesday. Get dispatches from Times correspondents around the globe delivered to your inbox with our daily World newslette...

Mumbai on the resund
According to various media reports, the intention of the would-be Copenhagen Motoon mujahideen was to stage a Mumbai-style attack. They planned storm the Jyllands-Posten building and kill as many people as possible before the police took them out. The latest reports say that only four were “Swedes”; the other was a “Dane”. The Swedish and Danish intelligence services had been following the plot for a long time, and allowed it to mature to the point where the evidence woul...

Planned Terror Attack Against Danish Newspaper Thwarted Video Report 12/29/10
Here is a video report on a possible terror plot against a Danish Newspaper being broken up by authorities. Three men are under arrest for allegedly planning to attack the newspaper that in 2005, published cartoon drawings depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammed. Muslims considered the drawings blasphemous. Reports indicate that at least one of the suspects arrested has been arrested twice before on terror-related charges and then released: New York Times: . . . . . The charges included prepa...

Denmark: 3 terror suspects kept in custody
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Three suspects accused of planning a shooting attack on the Copenhagen office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have been ordered to remain in jail for four weeks. A Danish intelligence official said Thursday that a fourth suspect was to be freed but remains a suspect. A fifth suspect, a Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin, was arrested in Sweden. The men have been accused of planning a Shooting Spree in the building where the Jyllands...

Muslim immigrants to Sweden behind alleged attack planned for Denmark
Image via Wikipedia NY Times: Three men arrested in Denmark on Wednesday on suspicion of planning to attack a newspaper that had published satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad appeared in court on Terrorism and weapons charges in Copenhagen on Thursday, and a fourth was set to appear in Sweden. The three men pleaded Not Guilty and invoked a legal right to remain silent, Danish security officials said. One of the men was identified as Munir Awad, a 29-year-old Swede of Lebanese origin. A ...

Five Arrested Over Terror Plot In Denmark
Denmark's intelligence service on Wednesday arrested four people suspected of planning an "imminent" terror attack against a newspaper that printed the Controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons. Swedish police said they arrested a fifth suspect. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service, known as PET, said three of the four men were residents of Sweden and had entered the country during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. The fifth suspect was a 37-year-old Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin liv...

Officials say suspects had terrorist ties
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Three of the four men charged with planning an attack against a Danish newspaper are thought to be connected to international Terrorists, officials said. The three were remanded into custody after appearing in court in Copenhagen Thursday, CNN reported. The fourth man, a 26-year-old Iraqi national, was released after being charged with the same offense. He is suspected of arranging housing for the other three. They were all arrested Wednesday. Officials said...