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Five
arrested for alleged plan to attack Danish newspaper
Wednesday December 29, 2010 09:06:48 PM,
DPA
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Copenhagen: Five people
have been arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on the
Danish newspaper that in 2005 published controversial caricatures
of the Muslim prophet Mohammed, the Danish secret service PET said
Wednesday.
The PET said that an armed "attack against the Copenhagen offices
of the Jyllands-Posten" had been imminent.
Four suspects were arrested in Denmark, where three of the four
had arrived from neighbouring Sweden, the PET said.
The suspects were described as militant Islamists and had
international ties, PET head Jakob Scharf said in a statement.
Scharf said the arrests were the result of close cooperation with
the Swedish security service. In Sweden, another man was also
reportedly arrested in connection with the case.
Four of the five suspects lived in Sweden and three had Swedish
citizenship, the Swedish security service said.
"A serious terrorist attack in Denmark has been averted thanks to
effective and close cooperation," Swedish security service head
Anders Danielsson said.
Swedish authorities were prepared to assist the Danish secret
service, and had launched a separate enquiry into the suspects
with ties to Sweden.
The suspects have not been linked to a suicide attack Dec 11 in
Stockholm in which a 28-year-old man was the only fatality.
The Jyllands-Posten has been the target of several alleged plots
since the publication of the caricatures. Almost exactly a year
ago, an axe-wielding man forced his way into cartoonist Kurt
Westergaard's home.
Westergaard had made a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb
in his turban.
Scharf said the terror alert level was not affected by the
arrests. The Swedish secret service made a similar assessment.
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