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502: 424:. While incarcerated, Dhari attempted to radicalize his fellow inmates. He was also noted for disorderly conduct by issuing loud calls to prayer. He received several warnings for death threats against fellow inmates and prison staff. Among those were "I swear I shall kill you, by Allah" to a fellow inmate along with "fucking homosexual" and "I am going to fuck you". Dhari told his neighbours that he was an employee at 516: 414:, 30, Swedish-Egyptian origin who had a previous conviction for sexual assault. While detained in Denmark he was suspected of planning new attacks because police found instructions for building weapons in his cell along with plans of public places. After being transferred to a Swedish prison, he received a number of warnings for refusing to work and disorderly conduct. 488:
said in an interview that "These people do things that are explicitly forbidden in Islam. They make our religion to appear cruel and brutal." The imam also said that "the prophet is very clear on this: A Muslim must not be disloyal to the country he lives in, much less the country that received him,
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Lars Løkke Rasmussen expressed his dismay at the fact that concrete plans for a group terrorist attack may have happened in the country. He stressed that, regardless of the case, they would not allow terrorism to endanger the values of their open society, in particular democracy and freedom of
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As suspects they had been under surveillance for an extended period of time and the arrests were the result of a long investigation. The group travelled to Copenhagen 27 December 2010, Zalouti changed his mind the way to Denmark and returned to
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The men were charged with attempted terrorism and unlawful possession of weapons (a machine gun with silencer, a pistol and more than 100 cartridges). On 4 June 2012 they were convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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While in prison he attempted to contact others by connecting other participants to a phone call with his wife, thereby attempting to communicate with people he was forbidden to contact. According to the
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In 2013 he was transferred to Saltvik prison after his appeal to have his conviction overturned in a Danish court was dismissed. Awad was the only one to appeal his conviction.
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and the employment service. Dhari applied several times to be transferred to a prison nearer to Stockholm but authorities refused due to the risk of escape.
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Sahbi Zalouti had also been previously arrested in Pakistan in 2009 on suspicions of terrorism, roughly at the same time as Munir Awad though not together.
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recommended a 10-year sentence. The judges and the other lay judges decided on a sentence of 12 years.
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Munir Awad was previously arrested in Pakistan in 2009 on suspicions of terrorism, together with
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to revenge the 2005 publishing of the cartoons portraying Muhammad as a terrorist.
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was thwarted by a successful cooperation between security services in Denmark and
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also stirred up some media attention. Stockholm mosque is a chapter of the
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gave him a visa, residence permit and protection when you most needed it."
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The terrorists allegedly plotted to conduct a "Mumbai-style" attack on
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In December the most serious terror operation ever uncovered in
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Delaryd, Charlotte; Chaaban, Sebastian (30 December 2010).
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The convicted were transferred to a prison in Sweden,
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Index

Copenhagen
Denmark
Jyllands-Posten
Mumbai-style
Jyllands-Posten
Muhammad cartoons
controversy

Timeline
Cartoon descriptions
Akkari-Laban dossier
Newspaper reprints
International reactions
Opinions
Jyllands-Posten
Islamisk Trossamfund
Denmark
Muslim community
Muslim world
Danish bombing
2010 Norway terror plot
2010 Copenhagen terror plot
Charlie Hebdo shooting
Lars Vilks controversy
2015 Copenhagen attacks
Freedom of speech
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Jyllands-Posten
controversial cartoons of Muhammad
Denmark
2015 Copenhagen shootings

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