NORWAY TERROR SUSPECTS `PLOTTED CARTOON ATTACKS`

28.09.2010 [17:11]
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Baku, September 28 (AZERTAC). Three men arrested in Norway in July are suspected of planning attacks to avenge cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that appeared in a Danish newspaper, Norwegian and Danish police say.

Denmark`s police intelligence branch said the target might have been either the Jyllands-Posten newspaper itself or people linked to the cartoons.

One of the suspects, an Iraqi Kurd, had confessed, police said.

The 12 drawings sparked furious protests in Muslim countries in 2006.

Islam forbids any depiction of the Prophet.

"One of the suspects was questioned and, from what he said we extracted a confession about terror attack plans," Siv Alfsen, a spokeswoman for Norwegian security police told the AFP news agency.

"Based on his declarations, everything indicates that the target was the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Denmark."

The other two suspects are immigrants from China and Uzbekistan. All had been granted residency in Norway.

NORWAY TERROR SUSPECTS `PLOTTED CARTOON ATTACKS`

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