Danish Cartoon Murder Plot


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Danish police are saying five Muslim men have been arrested after raids for “planning a gun attack at the Copenhagen offices of a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005″.  The suspected Islamist extremists were planning to attack the office of newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Four suspects are held in Denmark and one in Sweden.  The suspects are two Swedish residents with Tunisian backgrounds, one Lebanon-born Swede, an Iraqi and one with Swedish heritage.