The two main suspects were remanded in custody Wednesday, but the court at the time called for more evidence against the other five.
"The court today had to decide whether there is a strong suspicion" against the five, Prosecutor Erik Terp Jensen told reporters after the hearing, "and the court decided that there is."
www.iht.com...
There seems to be more than meets the eye here. The courts/police are being very tight lipped on the details. This is unusual given the leaks we normally see.
There is some information available though.
1. The police have been watching at least 4 of them for quite some time now.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Four young Muslims charged with supplying explosives for a planned attack in Europe were under surveillance by authorities for two years after they met with a radical Islamist leader in London, Denmark's former intelligence chief said Friday.
He said the cleric was Omar Bakri Mohammed, the leader of the now-disbanded radical Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, which gained notoriety for praising the Sept. 11 hijackers. Bakri, who now lives in Lebanon, is banned from returning to Britain, where he lived for 20 years.
www.washingtonpost.com...
2. The imam who helped start the "Cartoon War" (by showing fake mohammad cartoons), is involved.
Mohamad al-Khaled Samha,(AKA: Abu Bashar) the neighborhood's best-known imam, said he knew the suspects, whom he declined to name, and believed they would be released.
"I'm 100 percent sure that they will go free. They are very far from terrorists," he told The Associated Press in an interview.
"They are my neighbors," he said. "I see them in the supermarket, on the road and in the mosque sometimes on Fridays. They're Muslims, I pray with them."
apnews.myway.com...
3. The same imam, (Abu Bashar) is also tied to the failed German train bombing.
the links between the failed attacks and the Danish cartoons seem to go beyond that. Today Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet reported the news that one of the bombers, El Hajdib, was linked to the Danish imam Abu Bashar. According to the German BKA, when El Hajdib was arrested he was found in possession of a train ticket to the Danish city of Odense, where Bashar lives, and the cleric’s phone number. The BKA suspects that El Hajdib was supposed to hide in Odense with Abu Bashar's help before reaching relatives in Sweden.
counterterrorismblog.org...
4. And this report, from when the first 4 were arrested, just prior to the rest.
Friday, August 25, 2006
In October 2005, Danish police received tips that the four had ties to two men arrested in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on suspicion of planning a terror attack somewhere in Europe: Swedish national Mirsad Bektasevic, 19, and Abdulkadir Cesur, an 18-year-old Turkish national living in Denmark.
Police who raided the two men's Sarajevo apartment said they found a suicide bomber belt, explosives, firearms and other military equipment, as well as a videotape showing masked men asking for God's forgiveness. Bektasevic and Cesur have pleaded innocent.
After a 10-month investigation, the four suspects in Denmark were charged Thursday with helping provide weapons and explosives to Bektasevic and Cesur for the planned attack.
www.washingtonpost.com...
5. British intelligence suspects they are tied to a plot to bomb the White House.
A British police dragnet has raised suspicion that nine terrorist suspects arrested in Denmark and Bosnia are linked to a plan to attack the White House and other strategic targets in the United States.
British police became interested in one of the suspects after they arrested three men in London and found they had had email correspondence with a man living in Bosnia. The man living in Bosnia had been suspected of running a network that sought to draw alienated youths to the rebellion in Iraq.
Seven 16-20-year-olds are currently under arrest in Denmark along with two 18-year-old men in Sarajevo, one of Danish-Turkish heritage and the other from Sweden, in connection with the find of cache of weapons and explosives in Sarajevo.
www.cphpost.dk...
[edit on 9/9/06 by makeitso]
