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Plot Against Newspaper Foiled, Says Intelligence Service

December 30 2010

Denmark

The Danish intelligence service says it has arrested four people planning an "imminent" terrorist attack against a newspaper that printed controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad several years ago, the Voice of America News reports.

The suspects, described as "militant Islamists," planned to enter the Jyllands-Posten newspaper's Copenhagen building and kill as many people as possible, said Jakob Scharf, the head of the Danish security and intelligence service (known as...

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