Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Clula dismantled an extremist who planned an attack against the newspaper which published the vignettes dans Muhammad

 Five people have been arrested in Denmark and Sweden in the last hours accused of planning an attack against the newspaper in 2005 published cartoons of Mohammed that unleashed a wave of protests against the West in the Islamic world. Sources of the safety of these two Scandinavian countries have reported that four of the suspects, three of whom live in Sweden, were arrested in Denmark and Sweden fifth.


The same sources have said that the four men held in Denmark had planned to infiltrate the Copenhagen-based newspaper Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that first published cartoons of the prophet, "to kill as many people as possible", as insured Jakob Scharf, the head of Danish intelligence.

Scharf added that the attack would occur in "imminently" and has described some of the suspects as "Islamic militants." Danish media have also reported that dismantled the alleged terrorist group kept a pistol with a silencer in Denmark. Swedish intelligence agency Saerpo reported shortly after the first arrests of fifth arrest has taken place in Sweden connected to the group disbanded in Denmark.

Those arrested are aged between 26 and 44 years. Danish Justice Minister, Lars Barfoed, said in a statement that the extremist faction of the plan could be described as "the most serious attempt to attack so far in Denmark." A newspaper in the spotlight The editor of that publication is under constant surveillance since the publication of cartoons famous five years ago.

In late November, the devices were tightened to the mounting evidence of plans for terrorist attacks in Denmark and Sweden. On 11 December, an Islamic militant blew himself up in central Stockholm, which action intended to cause a slaughter. The Jyllands-Posten is the target of Islamic radicalism since the publication of twelve drawings that allude to Muhammad, including one that depicted the prophet with a bomb in his turban.

The publication of the cartoons, considered blasphemous in the Islamic sphere, ignited anger in the Muslim world and calls to boycott Danish products, attacks on diplomatic missions of Denmark and violent riots, with a total of 150 dead. Media around the Western world in solidarity, for its part, the Danish newspaper cartoons and reproduced simultaneously, convered a symbol of freedom of expression.

The Danish police has so far off several attempted attacks against the headquarters of this newspaper and against the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, author of one of the famous cartoons of the Prophet. Westergaard himself lived for years under police protection after death threats that were implemented earlier this year in the failed attack on, to break into his home by a man armed with a hatchet and a knife.

The artist left a few months ago that their collaboration with middle and last December published a memoir, which includes the cartoon.

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