Denmark: Hotel Bomber Found Guilty of Terror
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/05/30/world/europe/AP-EU-Denmark-Terror -Trial.html?ref=world <http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/05/30/world/europe/AP-EU-Denmark-Terro r-Trial.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print> &pagewanted=print COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - A Chechen-born man was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison for preparing a letter bomb that exploded in a Copenhagen hotel last September. The Copenhagen City Court said Lors Doukayev, a 25-year-old citizen and resident of Belgium, will be expelled from Denmark after serving his term. The bomb wounded Doukayev after exploding in a hotel bathroom on Sept. 10. No one else was injured. Investigators believe it went off prematurely when Doukayev, an amateur boxer with a prosthetic leg, was assembling the device, and that he had intended to send it to a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Doukayev, who was convicted Monday of attempted terrorism and illegal weapons possession, told the court he was innocent before the sentence was read. "I am about to be sentenced for something that I have not done," he said in French. During the trial he denied the terror allegations and claimed he carried the explosives and a gun for personal protection. Doukayev's defense lawyer, Niels Anker Rasmussen, called it a "tough sentence" and said he would discuss with his client whether to appeal. They have two weeks to do so. Prosecutor Rikke Lundby Jensen had requested at least 12 years in prison saying Doukayev came "very close" to carrying out the attack. Investigators believe he meant for the bomb to explode on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. Danish authorities say they have foiled a series of terror plots linked to the 2005 newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that triggered fiery protests in Muslim countries. On Feb. 4, a Somali immigrant was sentenced to nine years in prison for breaking into the home of a cartoonist who made one of the most controversial of the 12 drawings of Muhammad. Wielding an ax and a knife, the attacker was shot in the leg by police as the cartoonist hid in a panic room, unharmed. Four terror suspects are in jail awaiting formal charges for allegedly planning a shooting spree last year at the Copenhagen offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which first published the 12 cartoons. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
