Five arrested over Danish cartoon terror plot

Breitbart.com 12/29/2010 17:53

Picture taken on December 29 shows the building which houses the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen

The Danish intelligence agency PET said Wednesday it had arrested four men suspected of preparing a massacre at a newspaper which published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

A spokeswoman for Swedish intelligence agency Saepo said a fifth man had been arrested in Sweden in connection with the same plot against the Copenhagen-based Jyllands-Posten daily.

"These arrests have successfully stopped an imminent terror attack, where several of the suspects ... were going to force their way into the (building which houses the Jyllands-Posten) in Copenhagen and kill as many people as possible," PET head Jacob Scharf said in a statement.

The four men arrested in Denmark were a 44-year-old Tunisian, a 29-year-old Swede born in Lebanon, a 30-year-old Swede and a 26-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker.

The first three men all lived in Sweden and travelled to Denmark overnight, the PET statement said.

According to PET, the man arrested in Stockholm was a 37-year-old Swede of Tunisian background.

Scharf said several of the suspects could be described "as militant Islamists with connections to international terror networks."

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