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| Not guilty pleas at Danish newspaper 'massacre' trial | |
| 2012-04-13 | |
| Four men pled not guilty Friday as they went on trial in Denmarkover a suspected plot to massacre the staff of a newspaper that first published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Sahbi Ben Mohamed Zalouti, Munir Awad
Prosecutors say the four were plotting to "kill a large number of people" at the Jyllands-Posten daily's offices in Copenhagen when they were arrested on December 29, 2010. Jyllands-Posten published a dozen cartoons in 2005 of the Prophet Mohammed that triggered violent and sometimes deadly protests around the world. A machine gun with a silencer, a revolver, 108 bullets, reams of duct tape, and $20,000 were among the items found in the men's possession when they were arrested. Danish police, who had been collaborating with their Swedish counterparts and had been wiretapping the men, swooped in just after hearing them say they were "going to" the newspaper office. One of the two prosecutors, Henrik Plaehn, told the Glostrup district court that a ceremony celebrating the Sporting Newcomer of the Year at the newspaper was likely the target of the suspected plot. In addition to a number of sports celebrities, Danish Crown Prince Frederik was present at the ceremony. | |
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| Swedish suspect has terror ties | ||
| 2011-01-01 | ||
| A Swedish man arrested in Denmark suspected of plotting a terrorism against Jyllands-Posten has close ties to two men convicted in Sweden of terror-related crimes. According to Aftonbladet, Munir Awad had shared an apartment in Stockholm with two men who were convicted in December in Gothenburg. The two men, Elias Billé Mohamed, 26, and Mohamoud Jama, 23, were sentenced to four years in prison after finding that they were ready to commit suicide bombings in the name al-Shabaab.
"I am completely clean" he told the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet. The 26 year old says that he thought his apartment would be used by a Swede and his wife, but when he went to meet them, there were three men there instead.
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| 2 Somali Swedes Charged with Terrorism |
| 2010-10-16 |
| Two Somalis have been charged with "planning terrorist crimes" in Somalia. They were charged on Friday at the Gothenburg District Court for plotting to commit suicide attacks with the aim of "murder" or "maiming" a large number of people and causing "massive damage to property". Court documents said that there was a significant likelihood that the crimes would have been carried out had they not been intercepted. Investigators said the men, Fred Mertz, 22, and Ricky Ricardo, 26, are fans of Kanye West's posse, which is fighting the as good as non-existent Somali government and controls most of Somalia. |
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| Militia clashes in Puntland region leave seven dead |
| 2009-03-07 |
| At least seven people died and 11 others were wounded Wednesday in clashes between two Somali clan militias in the breakaway Puntland region, officials and elders said. The fighting erupted in a tiny village in the region of Bari over an old land dispute, they said. "The situation is calm for the time being and we have buried four bodies while residents are reporting several other dead bodies," said Abdulahi Shire Mohammad, the commissioner of Ufeynd district. Mohamoud Jama Feytin, a local elder, also said he saw seven dead bodies and 11 wounded, most of them combatants. "We are trying to stem the tensions which so far left seven dead and 11 others wounded, most of them fighters. I hope the situation will become normal," Feytin told AFP by phone. |
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