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Denmark arrests 4 in alleged terror plot
Updated: 2005-10-28 11:38
Police arrested four Danish Muslims Thursday on suspicion of belonging to a
terror network planning a suicide attack in Europe, officials said.
The suspects, all males between 16 and 20 years old, were ordered held in
jail while police investigate the allegations, police spokesman Joern Bro said.
He said at a news conference that the network had planned to carry out the
suicide attack in Europe.
"It seems the plan was going into a closing phase," said Bro, declining to
provide further details.
The suspects, who were not further identified, faced a judge in a closed-door
hearing late Thursday in Glostrup, a suburb of Copenhagen.
Police said they raided the suspects' homes in the Copenhagen area, seizing
computers, computer discs, books with radical Muslim literature and cellular
phones. Some 25 people in all were briefly detained but only the four were
arrested.
Danish media quoted Bro as saying that the arrests in Copenhagen were linked
to an investigation in the Balkans in which arrests were made this month and
large quantities of explosives were found.
He did not specify where the Balkan investigation took place but Bosnian
police said last week they arrested three people in Sarajevo on suspicion of
undertaking terrorist activities.
Police said they found explosives, firearms and other military equipment in
connection with those arrests on Oct. 19 and 20.
Responding to increased terrorism concerns, police stepped up patrols at
Danish train stations following the July attacks on the London transit system.
Like Britain, Denmark is part of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and has about
500 troops stationed there.
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