3 arrested on terrorist plot charges in Denmark
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April 28, 2012, Saturday
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THREE men have been arrested in Copenhagen on suspicion of plotting a terror attack after police found them with automatic weapons and ammunition, Denmark's intelligence service said yesterday.
The Security and Intelligence Service, or PET, said the men were arrested in two separate sites in the Danish capital in connection with an ongoing terror investigation.
Aside from facing preliminary charges of possessing illegal firearms, PET said they are "suspected of having been in the process of preparing a terrorist act." The agency did not give any details about the target.
"The investigation will establish whether possible terror threats have been addressed and averted by the arrests," the agency said in a statement.
Preliminary charges are a step short of formal charges.
PET described the men as a 22-year-old citizen of Jordan, a 23-year-old Turkish man living in Denmark and a 21-year-old Danish national who lives in Egypt.
The men face a custody hearing today, Copenhagen police spokesman Svend Foldager said.
In terror cases, such hearings are often closed sessions in Denmark.
PET would not say if it suspects the men to belong to a specific terror network. Since the 2005 publication of 12 caricatures of Prophet Mohammad in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, however, the agency has repeatedly warned that Denmark remains in the cross-hairs of Islamic terrorists.
The prophet cartoons triggered riots in many Muslim countries and militant Islamists called on followers to avenge them.
The Security and Intelligence Service, or PET, said the men were arrested in two separate sites in the Danish capital in connection with an ongoing terror investigation.
Aside from facing preliminary charges of possessing illegal firearms, PET said they are "suspected of having been in the process of preparing a terrorist act." The agency did not give any details about the target.
"The investigation will establish whether possible terror threats have been addressed and averted by the arrests," the agency said in a statement.
Preliminary charges are a step short of formal charges.
PET described the men as a 22-year-old citizen of Jordan, a 23-year-old Turkish man living in Denmark and a 21-year-old Danish national who lives in Egypt.
The men face a custody hearing today, Copenhagen police spokesman Svend Foldager said.
In terror cases, such hearings are often closed sessions in Denmark.
PET would not say if it suspects the men to belong to a specific terror network. Since the 2005 publication of 12 caricatures of Prophet Mohammad in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, however, the agency has repeatedly warned that Denmark remains in the cross-hairs of Islamic terrorists.
The prophet cartoons triggered riots in many Muslim countries and militant Islamists called on followers to avenge them.
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