Prophet cartoons: 4 jailed for attack plot
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June 5, 2012, Tuesday
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FOUR men were jailed for 12 years each yesterday for plotting a gun attack on a Danish newspaper over its cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, whose publication in 2005 sparked deadly riots across the Muslim world.
The men, a Tunisian and three Swedish citizens of Arab origin, were caught on police surveillance tapes discussing whether to behead or shoot their intended victims, the chief prosecutor said.
The plot, regarded by security experts as the most serious in modern Danish history, was foiled in late 2010 by a joint operation by Danish and Swedish police, who had been monitoring the group for weeks.
Presiding judge Katrine Eriksen said the four men had planned to carry out an attack at the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen, which first published the dozen cartoons seven years ago, and kill as many people as possible.
She also ordered the four, who had pleaded not guilty to the main terrorism charge, be expelled from Denmark after serving their sentence and instructed them to pay the trial costs.
It was not immediately clear if the men would appeal. They have four weeks to do so.
During the trial, prosecutors named Tunisian national Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri as the ringleader of the group which also comprised Swedish nationals Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla Aboelazm and Sahbi Ben Mohamed Zalouti.
The group was already under surveillance when Dhahri, Awad and Aboelazm drove to Denmark from Sweden to carry out their attack. The trio was arrested in a Copenhagen suburb on December 29, 2010, while Zalouti was detained the same day in a suburb of the Swedish capital Stockholm.
The men, a Tunisian and three Swedish citizens of Arab origin, were caught on police surveillance tapes discussing whether to behead or shoot their intended victims, the chief prosecutor said.
The plot, regarded by security experts as the most serious in modern Danish history, was foiled in late 2010 by a joint operation by Danish and Swedish police, who had been monitoring the group for weeks.
Presiding judge Katrine Eriksen said the four men had planned to carry out an attack at the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen, which first published the dozen cartoons seven years ago, and kill as many people as possible.
She also ordered the four, who had pleaded not guilty to the main terrorism charge, be expelled from Denmark after serving their sentence and instructed them to pay the trial costs.
It was not immediately clear if the men would appeal. They have four weeks to do so.
During the trial, prosecutors named Tunisian national Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri as the ringleader of the group which also comprised Swedish nationals Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla Aboelazm and Sahbi Ben Mohamed Zalouti.
The group was already under surveillance when Dhahri, Awad and Aboelazm drove to Denmark from Sweden to carry out their attack. The trio was arrested in a Copenhagen suburb on December 29, 2010, while Zalouti was detained the same day in a suburb of the Swedish capital Stockholm.
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