Four guilty of Danish plot over Muhammad cartoons

Source: BBC

4 June 2012 Last updated at 09:52 GMT

Four men have been found guilty by a Danish court of planning a terrorist attack on the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen.

The court heard the men wanted to kill a large number of people in revenge for the paper's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.

The four were all Muslims resident in Sweden. Police said they were arrested just hours before the foiled attack.

The men, who had denied charges of terrorism, face up to 16 years in jail.

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