Eleven raids carried out in the greater Copenhagen area, leading to eight arrests is being credited with preventing a terrorist bombing linked to al-Qaeda.
The Director General of the PET (Police Intelligence Service), the Danish Police, these men arrested are quoted as being "militant Islamists with direct connections to international groups such as al-Qaida." The suspects are said to be between 19-29 yrs of age.
Buildings in the city's southern suburb of Ishoej and its Noerrebro district - both with large immigrant populations - were among those cordoned off by police.
The suspects had been under surveillance for some time and Danish investigators had liaised with "several foreign co-operation partners" before making the arrests, police said.
Later on Tuesday, two of the suspects, both 21, were remanded in custody for 27 days, with the first 13 days to be spent in solitary confinement.
Captain's Quarters asks and answers the question of why Denmark:
Why Denmark? The Danes belong to the Coalition fighting in Iraq, but that's probably a secondary issue. The Prophet cartoons -- which depicted Mohammed in a critical fashion -- were first published by Danish newspapers, and the Muslim world went nuts over the images. Hundreds of thousands protested, several people were murdered, and the radicals swore revenge. Some of them took it seriously.
From London to Denmark, al-Qaeda groups are having their plots foiled by good intelligence and cooperation between countries in sharing that intelligence. These plots are first being prevented then made public, which is embarrassing to al-Qaeda and it shows their desperation in their lack of planning, their lack of discretion and shows that they are not as organized as they once were.
We must stay on the offensive with any group linked to al-Qaeda or any group that pledges their allegiance to al-Qaeda's ideological goals.
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