Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Newspaper in Copenhagen Barely Averts A Mumbai-Style Attack

So, this begs the question, will this near-tragedy force journalists around the world and especially in the US to give up their politically correct views about Islam, or will they just shut up and take cover?

Copenhagen Terrorist Attack Stopped:  5 Arrested in Copenhagen Terror Plot
ThirdAge News Staff
December 29, 2010

Copenhagen police and Denmark's intelligence service on Wednesday arrested four people suspected of planning an "imminent" terror attack against a newspaper that printed the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons.

Swedish police said they arrested a fifth suspect.

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service, known as PET, said three of the four men were residents of Sweden and had entered the country during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. The fifth suspect was a 37-year-old Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin living in Stockholm.

Jakob Scharf, the head of PET, said the arrests in Denmark were made after close cooperation with Swedish police.

"An imminent terror attack has been foiled," Scharf said, describing some the suspects as "militant Islamists." He said that more arrests could not be ruled out.

Scharf said they considered the attack had been thwarted and that "there was no need to raise the terror threat alert level" in Denmark.

PET said the group had been planning to enter the building where the Jyllands-Posten daily has its Copenhagen newsdesk and had wanted "to kill as many of the people present as possible."
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