Terror plot: Norway charges three over cartoons
The three were accused of planning to attack Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and the newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
KARACHI:
Norwegian prosecutors charged three men with conspiracy to commit terrorism in connection with the 2005 Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) cartoon controversy, the BBC reported. The three were accused of planning to attack Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published his cartoons. The men – of Iraqi Kurdish, Chinese Uighur and Uzbek origin – were arrested in Norway and Germany in 2010. The three are expected to be tried next month. They were named Mikael Davud, a Norwegian of Uighur origin, Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd residing in Norway, and David Jakobsen, an Uzbek also living in Norway, the report added.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2011.
Norwegian prosecutors charged three men with conspiracy to commit terrorism in connection with the 2005 Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) cartoon controversy, the BBC reported. The three were accused of planning to attack Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published his cartoons. The men – of Iraqi Kurdish, Chinese Uighur and Uzbek origin – were arrested in Norway and Germany in 2010. The three are expected to be tried next month. They were named Mikael Davud, a Norwegian of Uighur origin, Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd residing in Norway, and David Jakobsen, an Uzbek also living in Norway, the report added.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2011.