Four charged with plotting terror attack in Europe
24/08/2006 - 17:34:08A Danish prosecutor today charged four young Muslims with plotting a terror attack in Europe.
The four suspects were arrested in October last year in connection with an investigation in Bosnia.
Prosecutor Henning Fode said they helped two other suspects in Bosnia get hold of weapons and explosives as part of a plot to blow up an unidentified European target.
The four men, who cannot be named under a court order, would face up to life in prison if found guilty. Under Danish law, life sentences are commuted after 16 years.
All four have denied wrongdoing. Two of them are aged 17, and the others are 20 and 21.
No date for their trial before the Eastern High Court in Copenhagen was immediately announced.
Bosnian authorities have charged two men, Swedish national Bektasevic, 19, and Abdulkadir Cesur, an 18-year-old Turkish national living in Denmark, with planning the terrorist act. Three others have been charged with helping them obtain explosives.
Bosnian prosecutors said Bektasevic and Cesur were planning an attack in Bosnia-Herzegovina or elsewhere in Europe with the aim of forcing the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Police raiding their Sarajevo apartment allegedly found a suicide bomber belt, explosives, firearms and other military equipment, as well as a videotape showing masked men asking for God’s forgiveness.
The four suspects in Denmark were arrested on October 27 after a tip from the Bosnian police. Three other suspects were arrested in Denmark, but have been released. It was not immediately clear whether they also faced charges.
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