More details are coming in about the Foiled Terror Attack in Denmark. Denmark's intelligence agency arrested eight militant Islamists with connections to "a leading al-Qaida person" in overnight raids in the Danish capital, the head of the agency said Tuesday.The suspects, between ages 19 and 21, were suspected of preparing a terror act involving explosives, said Jakob Scharf, the head of the PET intelligence service. "With the arrests we have prevented a terror attack," Scharf told reporters at a news conference. He did not say what the target of the planned attack was. Those arrested were six Danish citizens and two foreign nationals with Danish residence permits, Scharf said. The suspects had been under surveillance for a long period and were arrested after police gathered enough evidence against them, he said. "They also have been producing an unstable explosive in a densely populated area," Scharf said. He said Danish investigators had worked with "several foreign co-operation partners" in the probe. From "The Canadian Press" "8 suspects with al-Qaida links arrested in Denmark, intelligence service says" |
