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Eugene

(61,963 posts) Mon Jan 30, 2012, 01:41 PM Jan 2012

Norway jails two for Danish newspaper terror plot (over Muhammad cartoons)

Source: BBC

30 January 2012 Last updated at 14:12 GMT

Norway jails two for Danish newspaper terror plot

A Norwegian court has convicted two men of planning to attack Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten after it printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

The convictions were the first under Norway's anti-terrorism legislation.

Mikael Davud, a Norwegian from China's ethnic Uighur minority who had links to al-Qaeda, was jailed for seven years.

An Iraqi Kurd, Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, was given three-and-a-half years. Another man, David Jakobsen, was cleared of terror charges.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16790916

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Norway jails two for Danish newspaper terror plot (over Muhammad cartoons) (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2012 OP

Those sentences are way too lenient. snagglepuss Jan 2012 #1

so how long would you have sentenced them? alp227 Jan 2012 #2

This was not 'communicating violent threats'; it was conspiracy to cause explosions muriel_volestrangler Jan 2012 #3

snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)

1. Those sentences are way too lenient.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 02:02 PM

Jan 2012

alp227

(32,059 posts)

2. so how long would you have sentenced them?

Reply to snagglepuss (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 03:02 PM

Jan 2012

Here's California Penal Code 422 regarding criminal threats. Anyone convicted of communicating violent threats against another person gets up to 1 year in prison.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,368 posts)

3. This was not 'communicating violent threats'; it was conspiracy to cause explosions

Reply to alp227 (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 06:50 PM

Jan 2012

perhaps conspiracy to commit murder.

15-45 years in North Carolina: http://articles.cnn.com/2012-01-13/justice/justice_nc-terror-ring-sentencing_1_jude-kenan-mohammad-ziyad-yaghi-hysen-sherifi?_s=PM:JUSTICE

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