Denmark was high on Osama bin Laden’s terrorist list, showing letter seized by Navy Seals in the raid that killed al-Qaeda leader in 2011, writes Ekstra Bladet.
terror suspects: Abid Naseer Photo: Metropolitan Police
Abid Naseer (28) is accused by US authorities of being the leader for three terror cells in Norway, New York and Manchester. He was extradited from Britain in January 2013.
Seized bin Laden letter
Terror Cells were otherwise rolled up after a document blunder that led that counterterrorism chief in British MI5 withdrew in 2009.
Terror goal in Denmark was allegedly newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which had pressed the Muhammad caricatures:
– We sent a while ago a group of three brothers to perform an operation. We lost contact with them. We heard news about their arrest, but only Allah knows if it is true, according to a letter from al-Qaeda’s chief of operations abroad, Saleh al-Somali.
A handwritten note seized from bin Laden. Facsimile of court document
Al-Somali was instrumental in organizing terrorist plans in New York, Manchester and Norway, and was later killed in a CIA drone attack in Pakistan.
Abid Naseer was extradited in 2013. Now his trial started in the US . Straight Drawing: NTB scanpix
The letters were presented as evidence in the Federal Court in New York this week, sent from different senders to Osama bin Laden from 2009 to 2011 and included in the evidence against Abid Naseer. According accusations he ruled out a terrorist cell in Norway who planned to bomb Jyllands-Posten in 2009/2010.
During the trial has five MI5 agents testified in disguise. They got quiet with wig, makeup and glasses in court and testified about the British counterterrorist operation “Pathway”, which led to the first arrests in the UK.
Three arrested in Norway in 2010
It is confirmed, however, that the “three brothers” mentioned in the letter to Osama bin Laden’s Naseer terrorist cell in Norway, but July 2010 arrested Police security service Uzbeks David Jakobsen, Kurd Shawan Bujak and Uyghurs Mikael Davud. They were accused of planning an attack on Norwegian soil .
As TV 2 has previously told , it was just unfolding Manchester cell in 2009 that put PST on track by Davud.
Bujak told in interviews that they wanted to attack Jyllands-Posten with bombs to punish newspaper house after the printing of the Mohammed drawings in 2005.
Shawan Bujak, Mikael Davud and David Jakobsen were arrested by PST in July 2010. Installation: TV2 / Scanpix
spring of 2010 Davud have told Bujak that he would shoot the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. D , after all, they tried to acquire firearms that would be used against Muhammad cartoonist.
In 2012 they were sentenced in Oslo District Court. Court of Appeal tightened the punishment for terrorist planning to eight years for Mikael Davud and lowered it with a half years of Shawan Bujak. David Jakobsen was acquitted of terrorism planning, but sentenced to four months in jail for having helped Davud. Supreme Court rejected appeals in 2013.
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