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onsdag, december 29, 2010

Danish, Swedish police arrest 5 in newspaper plot

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Five men planning to shoot as many people as possible in a building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed were arrested Wednesday in an operation that halted an imminent attack, intelligence officials said.

Denmark's intelligence service said that after months of surveillance they had arrested four men in two raids in suburbs of the capital, Copenhagen, and seized a submachine gun, a silencer and ammunition. Swedish police said they arrested a 37-year-old Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin living in Stockholm.

Read more:  http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-12-29-terror-arrests_N.htm

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