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March 25, 2008
Denmark: Three Muslims Charged With Terrorism
News from Associated Press, International Herald Tribune, Bloomberg, Reuters and Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
Today, two men aged 21 and 22 were officially charged by Danish prosecutors with plotting a bomb attack. The pair had already experimented with explosive substances, the prosecutors maintained, having made triaecetone triperoxidie (TATP) the chemical used in the London bombings of July 7, 2005.
On September 4 2007, eight people were arrested in the Greater Copenhagen area. The two men who were charged earlier today were among the individuals arrested. There were six with Danish citizenship and two foreign subjects with a Danish residence permit. They came from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Turkey. The other men are not in custody, though they are "under investigation".
The charge sheet maintains that the two indicted men had manufactured TATP and had tested it, though the location of the test explosion has not been revealed in the court documents. State Prosecutor Joergen Steen Joergensen made a statement which claimed the pair had "prepared one or more bombs for a planned terror act at an unspecified location in Denmark or abroad." The men also possessed bomb- making manuals, stated the prosecutors.
When the September 4 arrests took place, there was talk of Al Qaeda involvement. Police Intelligence Service stated that the men arrested had been under surveillance for some time. Agents of the National Emergency Management Agency were at the raids, suggesting police assumed explosives to be present. Jakob Scharf, chief of police, had said: "We regard the main suspects as militant Islamists with international ties - this includes direct contacts with leading persons within the Al Qaeda network. There is a general threat of terrorism against the western countries and according to our assessment of the situation, Al Qaeda after having been forced in the defensive, is regaining strength and is again capable of organizing a terror attack against a wester country."
There was no mention in today's official reports of Al Qaeda.
A third man was also charged today. He was accused of urging Danes to be kidnapped when abroad as a means of releasing the two individuals who were charged today with explosives manufacture and bomb plotting. This third man had been arrested on November 11 2007. He is said to be a 23-year old Danish national of Turkish origin.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 25, 2008 6:06 PM
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