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Five arrested in Danish terror plot

Danish police have arrested five suspected Islamist militants for planning to attack a newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in 2005. 

4:37PM GMT 29 Dec 2010

The suspects had planned to enter a Copenhagen office block housing several newspapers including offices of the daily Jyllands-Posten to "kill as many as possible of those around", police said.

A machine gun with a silencer, ammunition and plastic strips that could be used as handcuffs were seized.

"The detainees were preparing a terror attack against a newspaper, which according to the PET's information was Jyllands-Posten," Denmark's PET security police said in a statement. "The attack was due to be carried out in the coming days."

Jyllands-Posten was the newspaper that first published the cartoons, provoking protests against Danish and European interests in the Middle East, Africa and Asia in which at least 50 people died.

Danish Justice Minister Lars Barfoed said those detained had a "militant Islamic background" and called the plan the most serious such attempt in Denmark so far.


Three of the detainees were Swedish citizens, the Swedish security police force SAPO said in a statement. Four were arrested in Denmark and one in Sweden.

The Nordic region, and especially Denmark, attracted the ire of militant Islamists across the world after the 2005 cartoons.

Sketches of the Prophet by Swedish artist Lars Vilks in 2007 sparked similar outrage, but did not prompt immediate violence. Mr Vilks has faced numerous death threats as well as an attempted arson attack on his home. In Denmark Denmark's 'selfie' PM McIlroy and Wozniacki: in pics Duchess visits set of The Killing Kate and William in Denmark Thorning-Schmidt celebrates Skiing on a power plant Climate change stunts










