Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

Dwarfing all other possible Danish Cartoon-related news is word that a Denmark court has convicted the four men currently on trial for a plot that involved terrorist activity visited upon Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that printed the original cartoons.

A Tunisian (Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri) and three Swedish citizens of Arab birth (Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, Sahbi Ben Mohamed Zalouti) were convicted of plotting a Mumbai-style gun attack in Copenhagen, focused on the newspaper. All four men had plead innocent on the terrorism charges although one had entered a guilty plea on illegal weapons possession. Another two charges of weapons possession were dismissed on a technicality. The four men were arrested at the end of 2010 after a joint Danish/Swedish operation -- the trial was thought to be a referendum on such police work and on the laws applied to what those men did.

They should be sentenced later today. Life in prison is possible; other offenses of a similar nature have received seven to 12 years. Between 14 and 16 years are being sought for those men.
 
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