Oslo (dpa) – Two men were convicted and a third acquitted Monday by a Norwegian court of planning a bomb attack on a newspaper in neighboring Denmark. The three were arrested in July 2010 after the Norwegian security service PST foiled an attempt by the accused to order bomb-making materials including hydrogen peroxide-based chemicals from a pharmacy. The court said the target of the attack was the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, which in 2005 published caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, and Danish newspaper cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who drew an image of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. Mikael Davud, a 40-year-old Norwegian national of Uighur ethnic background, received a seven-year jail term, the Oslo district court said. “The court has no doubt that Davud took the initiative and that he was the ringleader,” Judge Oddmund Svarteberg said. Sawad Sadek Saeed Bujak, 38, an Iraqi Kurd who lived in Oslo on an unlimited Norwegian residency permit, was sentenced to three and half years as an accomplice, the ruling said. Co-defendant David Jakobsen, 33, an ethnic Uzbek refugee, was sentenced to a four-month sentence for buying bomb-making materials but cleared of taking part in the terrorism plans. The court said he had served his sentence while he was held in remand custody. The prosecution had called for an 11-year term for Davud and five years each for the other two defendants. “An aggravating circumstance” for Davud was that he had been in contact with the al-Qaeda terrorist network or supporters of the network, the judge said. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/Y7S8D Tags: Denmark, Norway, Prophet, Terrorism Section: Europe, Latest News
