Saturday 1 January 2011

Danish attack plot was 'destined to fail': expert


COPENHAGEN — A plot foiled this week to massacre staff at a Danish newspaper was destined to fail because the suspects' links to Islamic extremists were so well known, a terrorism expert was quoted saying Saturday.
One of the five men arrested Wednesday was "so publicly exposed and known by the intelligence services that the plot against Jyllands-Posten was almost destined to fail," Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at the Swedish National Defence College, told the Politiken daily's online edition.
Munir Awad, a 29-year-old Swede born in Lebanon, was one of five men arrested Wednesday for hatching what Danish officials called a plan to "kill as many people as possible" in an assault on the Jyllands-Posten daily.
The paper published in September 2005 a dozen cartoons of the Muslim prophet that triggered violent and sometimes deadly protests around the world, as well as threats against the daily.
Four men -- including Awad and two other Stockholm-based men -- were arrested in suburbs of Copenhagen and one was arrested at his home north of the Swedish capital.
The four Swedish residents had all been under surveillance for months, Swedish intelligence service Saepo said this week.Read More

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