From Creeping Sharia:
Norway: 2 Muslims Convicted in Plot Against Mo’toons Newspaper
Posted on February 4, 2012 by creeping
OSLO—Two men were convicted in a Norwegian court Monday for planning terrorism against the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
The men are the first to be convicted under Norway’s antiterror laws.
Chinese-born Uighur Mikael Davud, 40 years old, was sentenced to seven years in prison, while Iraqi Kurd Sawad Sadek Saeed Bujak, 39, was sentenced to prison for three years and six months.
Sawad Sadek Saeed Bujak in court in Oslo Monday was sentenced to 3½ years.
A third man accused, Uzbek-born David Jakobsen, 33, was acquitted of terror conspiracy but sentenced to four months in prison for cooperating with the others. Mr. Jakobsen has already completed this time in custody.
Between November 2008 and July 2010, the court said, Messrs. Davud and Bujak conspired to blow up the offices of Jyllands-Posten and shoot Mr. Westergaard.
Mr. Davud masterminded the plans and would have placed the bomb, the court said, adding that he had received six weeks of explosives training from al Qaeda in Waziristan.
Daily broadsheet Jyllands-Posten created uproar in 2005 when it published a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, whose visual portrayal is forbidden under Islamic tradition.
The drawings, including one by cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, provoked outrage and protests across the Muslim world. Since their publication, several plots to attack the newspaper and Mr. Westergaard have emerged.
The terror plans were at an early stage, according to the court. The ruling said it wasn’t clear whether Mr. Davud would have gone through with the attack, adding “it is quite possible that he had given up the plans” when he was arrested on July 8, 2010. The court said it had reduced his punishment by about 10%.
According to the ruling, the Norwegian Police Security Service found several manuals on Mr. Davud’s MP3 player after he received training by al Qaeda, including one titled “Methods For Explosives Preparations.”
Investigators say the plot was linked to the same al Qaeda planners who were behind thwarted attacks against the New York subway system and a British shopping mall in 2009, according to the Associated Press.
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