The trio of Norwegian citizens, believed to have ties to al-Qaeda, is suspected of planning an attack and acquiring ingredients to make explosives to bomb the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper for printing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, which is considered blasphemous in Islam.
They have been charged with "conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack." If convicted, the men face up to 20 years in prison.
The men, who were arrested in July 2010, had bought bomb-making materials, including hydrogen peroxide and acetone, which police discovered in a cellar belonging to one of them.
The men have been identified as Mikael Davud, a Norwegian of Uighur origin, Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd residing in Norway and David Jakobsen, an ethnic Uzbek also living in Norway.
Police found weapons manuals, bomb-making instructions and pro al-Qaeda propaganda on Davud's computer in Norway.
During earlier interviews, Davud and Bujak had both admitted that they were planning an attack, although their versions have differed on the target. Davud had claimed the target was the Chinese embassy in Oslo, while Bujak had said it was the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. Read the rest on:
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