Copenhagen: Three terror suspects who were arrested in an alleged Al Qaida plot in Norway were likely planning an attack against a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), Norwegian and Danish police said Tuesday.
The intelligence branch of Denmark's police, PET, said the suspects were believed to be planning an attack either against the Jyllands-Posten newspaper directly or against people in Denmark linked to the 12 drawings that sparked outrage in Muslim countries in 2006.
The men were arrested July 8 in what US and Norwegian officials believe was a plot linked to the same Pakistan-based Al Qaida planners behind thwarted schemes to blow up New York's subway and a British shopping mall.
Siv Alsen, spokeswoman at the Norwegian Police Security Service, said one of the suspects, 37-year-old Iraqi Kurd Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak Bujak, had disclosed the plot to investigators.
Confession
"We can confirm that he has confessed and explained about his role in planning terror. He was planning this together with the two others arrested," Alsen said. "The information we got indicates that it [Jyllands-Posten] was the target."
The other suspects in the case are 31-year-old Uzbek national David Jakobsen and the alleged ringleader, 39-year-old Mikael Davud, an Uighur with Norwegian citizenship.
