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| Four guilty of Danish plot over Muhammad cartoons | |
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| Four men have been found guilty by a Danish court of planning a terrorist attack the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen. | |
| The court heard the men wanted to kill a large number of people in revenge for the paper's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. | |
| The four were all Muslims resident in Sweden. Police said they were arrested just hours before the foiled attack. | |
| They had denied charges of terrorism. They face up to 16 years in jail. | They had denied charges of terrorism. They face up to 16 years in jail. |
| Jyllands-Posten's publication of the cartoons of Muhammad sparked riots in Muslim countries. | |
| Munir Awad, Omar Abdallah Aboelazm and Munir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, a Tunisian citizen, were picked up by police on 29 December 2010 at a flat near Copenhagen. | |
| Sabhi Ben Mohamed Zalouti was arrested a day later after crossing into Sweden, then extradited back to Denmark. | |
| A machine-gun with a silencer, a pistol and 108 bullets, and rolls of duct tape were among items found in the men's possession when they were arrested. |