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Denmark Convicts Four over Cartoon Killing Plot


(Reuters) A Danish court on Monday found three Swedish citizens and a Tunisian guilty of plotting to kill a large number of people at the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in revenge for its publication in 2005 of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. "The accused...are guilty of terrorism," Judge Katrine Eriksen told the court. "(They) agreed and prepared acts to kill people." Convicted were Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, a Tunisian citizen; Munir Awad, a Swedish citizen born in Lebanon; Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, a Swedish citizen born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Egyptian father; and Sahbi Ben Mohamed Zalouti, a Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin.
2012-06-06 00:00:00
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