Pair accused of planning terror attack
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May 30, 2012, Wednesday
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TWO Danish brothers originally from Somalia have been arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack, Denmark's security service said yesterday.
The men, 18 and 23, were suspected of "being in the process of preparing an act of terror" after being overheard talking about methods, targets and different weapons, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service said.
The agency, known by its Danish acronym PET, said the brothers were arrested late Monday - one in the western city of Aarhus and the other as he arrived by plane at Copenhagen's international airport.
The suspects are "Danish citizens of Somali origin" who have lived in Denmark for 16 years, PET said.
One of the men had been at a training camp in Somalia run by the Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which has links to al-Qaida, PET said.
The men were charged with receiving training with the aim of committing an act of terror, in what the agency said are the first known terror-trained suspects in Denmark.
"According to PET's assessment, the arrests have prevented a concrete act of terror and the arrests therefore don't lead to a changed evaluation of the terror threat in Denmark," the agency said, adding that the threat level in Denmark remains "serious."
The Scandinavian country has been in the cross hairs of Islamist terror groups ever since the publication of newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
The men, 18 and 23, were suspected of "being in the process of preparing an act of terror" after being overheard talking about methods, targets and different weapons, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service said.
The agency, known by its Danish acronym PET, said the brothers were arrested late Monday - one in the western city of Aarhus and the other as he arrived by plane at Copenhagen's international airport.
The suspects are "Danish citizens of Somali origin" who have lived in Denmark for 16 years, PET said.
One of the men had been at a training camp in Somalia run by the Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which has links to al-Qaida, PET said.
The men were charged with receiving training with the aim of committing an act of terror, in what the agency said are the first known terror-trained suspects in Denmark.
"According to PET's assessment, the arrests have prevented a concrete act of terror and the arrests therefore don't lead to a changed evaluation of the terror threat in Denmark," the agency said, adding that the threat level in Denmark remains "serious."
The Scandinavian country has been in the cross hairs of Islamist terror groups ever since the publication of newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
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