"It is important that the case will no longer be more serious than it was before and will not cause more harm to Muslims than it has already done."[12] All three men had changed their names in the aftermath of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.[5] Some days later, the suspected main perpetrator Mikael Davud claimed that he had planned to bomb the Chinese embassy and other Chinese interests in Oslo and other parts of Norway as part of a personal vendetta because of the treatment of ethnic Uighurs in China, unknowingly to the other suspects.[4][13][7] A solo plot would notably have avoided the stricter sentencing under Norway's anti-terror laws which required a person to have entered into a conspiracy with at least one other person.[5]