(Bloomberg news reports: "Danish authorities arrested nine people suspected of involvement in planning a terrorist attack, the country's police intelligence service said…. The arrests were made after police uncovered evidence that a number of the suspects had 'materials that can be used for the construction of explosives in connection with preparation for an act of terror,' [intelligence] service head Lars Findsen said in the statement." From AP:
The prime suspects in the failed attempt to blow up two German trains were partly motivated by anger over the publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons, a leading investigator said in an interview released Saturday. (Bloomberg news reports: Danish authorities arrested nine people suspected of involvement in planning a terrorist attack, the country's police intelligence service said…. The arrests were made after police uncovered evidence that a number of the suspects had ``materials that can be used for the construction of explosives in connection with preparation for an act of terror,'' [intelligence] service head Lars Findsen said in the statement. The cartoons were first printed last September in a Danish newspaper and then republished in other European media months later, setting off protests across the Muslim world. One suspect in the failed bombing, Jihad Hamad, 20, told Lebanese interrogators that a fellow suspect, Youssef Muhammad el-Hajdib, 21, considered the publications "an attack of the Western world on Islam," Jörg Ziercke, the chief of Germany's Federal Crime Office, told the magazine Focus in an interview released in advance of publication. The men are suspected of planting crude bombs July 31 on two trains at the Cologne station. The bombs were found later in the day on regional trains in Koblenz and Dortmund. Authorities have said that the detonators went off but failed to ignite the devices.