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September 29, 2010, Wednesday
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AN Iraqi Kurd living in Norway has admitted planning a bomb attack against the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad five years ago, Norwegian authorities said yesterday.
Security police said Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, 37, confessed that he and two other suspects now in Norwegian custody had plotted to attack Jyllands-Posten, one of Denmark's largest newspapers, .
"He has explained his role in the case and confessed planning to commit terror," Siv Alsen, a spokeswoman for the Norwegian Police Security Service, said. "The goal was Jyllands-Posten in Denmark."
Bujak is an Iraqi Kurd with permanent Norwegian residency. He and the other two suspects - 39-year-old Norwegian citizen Mikael Davud and 31-year-old Norwegian resident David Jakobsen - were arrested on July 8 and have been in custody since.
The three have been charged with conspiring to commit terror in Norway, but Alsen said those charges could now be changed.
She said Davud, a Chinese Uighur by origin, and Jakobsen, an Uzbek, were being re-interrogated in light of Bujak's remarks. She would not say whether Bujak has implicated them in any way.
Bujak's attorney Brynjar Meling told daily Aftenposten that his client denies being part of a terror cell and insists he had nothing to do with al-Qaida.
Jyllands-Posten's chief editor, Joern Mikkelsen, told his newspaper that the confession in Norway was "shockingly new."
"Unfortunately it's one more example of a threat against us, but it's also one more example that we are well taken care of," he said. "We have great confidence in both PET and the police."
The printing of the cartoons in 2005 set off a wave of violent protests across the Muslim world.
Security police said Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, 37, confessed that he and two other suspects now in Norwegian custody had plotted to attack Jyllands-Posten, one of Denmark's largest newspapers, .
"He has explained his role in the case and confessed planning to commit terror," Siv Alsen, a spokeswoman for the Norwegian Police Security Service, said. "The goal was Jyllands-Posten in Denmark."
Bujak is an Iraqi Kurd with permanent Norwegian residency. He and the other two suspects - 39-year-old Norwegian citizen Mikael Davud and 31-year-old Norwegian resident David Jakobsen - were arrested on July 8 and have been in custody since.
The three have been charged with conspiring to commit terror in Norway, but Alsen said those charges could now be changed.
She said Davud, a Chinese Uighur by origin, and Jakobsen, an Uzbek, were being re-interrogated in light of Bujak's remarks. She would not say whether Bujak has implicated them in any way.
Bujak's attorney Brynjar Meling told daily Aftenposten that his client denies being part of a terror cell and insists he had nothing to do with al-Qaida.
Jyllands-Posten's chief editor, Joern Mikkelsen, told his newspaper that the confession in Norway was "shockingly new."
"Unfortunately it's one more example of a threat against us, but it's also one more example that we are well taken care of," he said. "We have great confidence in both PET and the police."
The printing of the cartoons in 2005 set off a wave of violent protests across the Muslim world.
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