Danes brace for court's verdict over cartoon plot
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June 3, 2012, Sunday
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A Danish court will rule tomorrow whether four men plotted a slaughter at a newspaper in revenge for its publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad - an event that took place seven years ago, and is set to haunt Denmark for years to come.
Three Swedes and a Tunisian have pleaded not guilty to planning a massacre at the Copenhagen offices of Jyllands-Posten. Police said the attack was meant to "kill as many as possible" and been foiled with just days to spare.
It was only the latest of a number of incidents stemming from the cartoons.
Last year an ax-wielding Somali was sentenced to 10 years for attempting to kill cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, the author of the most famous of the cartoons, in a break-in at his home on New Year's Day 2010.
And this week two young Danish brothers originally from Somalia were also arrested for plotting an attack.
The head of Denmark's state security police has no doubt about their consequences.
"What we see in our work is that the cartoons are still being used as an important part of their propaganda by al Qaida and other Islamist groups," said Jakob Scharf.
Three Swedes and a Tunisian have pleaded not guilty to planning a massacre at the Copenhagen offices of Jyllands-Posten. Police said the attack was meant to "kill as many as possible" and been foiled with just days to spare.
It was only the latest of a number of incidents stemming from the cartoons.
Last year an ax-wielding Somali was sentenced to 10 years for attempting to kill cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, the author of the most famous of the cartoons, in a break-in at his home on New Year's Day 2010.
And this week two young Danish brothers originally from Somalia were also arrested for plotting an attack.
The head of Denmark's state security police has no doubt about their consequences.
"What we see in our work is that the cartoons are still being used as an important part of their propaganda by al Qaida and other Islamist groups," said Jakob Scharf.
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