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Danish police arrest 8 in terror plot
2007-09-04

COPENHAGEN (Rooters) - Danish police on Tuesday arrested eight young Muslims they said were plotting a terrorist attack and had ties to al Qaeda. "These are militant Islamists with connections to high-ranking members of al Qaeda," Jakob Scharf, director of the Danish police's Security Intelligence Service, told a news conference in Copenhagen.

"Our investigation has shown that some of the suspects had acquired materials to make explosives."
He declined to comment on the target of the attack and which country it was planned for. Scharf said police believed they had foiled an act of terror with the arrests, which came after several months of surveillance. "Our investigation has shown that some of the suspects had acquired materials to make explosives," he said, but declined to say whether explosives had been found.

The Muslims, who ranged from 19 to 29 years old, came from Afghan, Pakistani, Somali and Turkish backgrounds. Six were Danish citizens, Scharf said. He added that the eight suspects had been arrested under Denmark's anti-terrorism laws passed after the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
Posted by:anonymous5089

#11  Jack, What, the mossies not outraged at drug dealing in Christiania?

;)
Posted by: rhodesiafever   2007-09-04 19:02  

#10  Where is the outrage? These were just peaceful Danes going about their business. They were under surveillance, their rights being trampled. Next those evil Danes will open up a prison for enemy combatants and go to war with no justification whatsoever.

/sarc
Posted by: Unique Battle   2007-09-04 18:01  

#9  Victor Borge's Piano

Is nothing sacred!?!

My Danish grandmother used to go see Victor back when he performed in Copenhagen under his real name, Borge Rosenbaum. The Nazi occupation of Denmark provided Borge with an abundant supply of material for his comedy sketches until certain chaps in brown shirts made it quite clear that—should he keep skewering the Third Reich—a lampshade figured prominently in his future.

Denmark's loss was our gain and Borge went on to have the longest running one-man comedy show in all of Broadway's history. One of Borge's jokes about the piano:

Here I am in the airport and this nice fellow in line before me says to his wife, "I wish we had the piano here". I'm thinking to myself, 'How wonderful that this man recognizes who I am and wants all of us to enjoy some of my music.' The man's wife turns to him and asks, "Why do you want the piano, dear?" He replies, "Because our airline tickets are sitting on it."

And another:

"The people at Steinway have asked me to inform you that this is a Baldwin piano!"

Contrary to popular belief that Borge hammed it up on piano because he could not play a piece all the way through, he was in fact a superb concert pianist of international stature.

Many years before my grandmother's death, my sweetheart and I took her to see Victor Borge one more time. As an ardent fan of classical music, never have I enjoyed hearing it mutilated so skillfully. Truly, he was and forever shall be Denmark's "Clown Prince".

A link to one of Borge's masterpieces:

Hungarian Rhapsody #2:

Please don't post long URLs. Some browsers won't wrap them when displaying, and it screws up the entire page. Thank you.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-04 17:09  

#8  Possible Danish Targets for a Muzzie:

1. The Little Mermaid
2. The Carlsberg Brewery
3. Danish Crown Pork Processing Plant in Horsen
4. Tivoli Gardens
5. The "red light" district of Copenhagen
6. Victor Borge's Piano
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-09-04 15:49  

#7  Can we just martyr them wholesale in their mosques and madrassas right now? Spare the cafe diners and bus passengers in our own country?

eLarson, I'm beginning to think it's one or the other.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-04 12:36  

#6  mhw, it doesn't matter what they say. A Muslim can say anything that will help advance Islam. "Truth", "lie" - it doesn't matter.

Rambler, that was mhw's point. Wait until the imam issues a fatwa declaring that it is all right to lie when taking a loyalty oath. That would tend to make the Danes a wee bit peevish.

That Islam awards itself this incredibly unfair advantage of church sanctioned deceit and perfidy is what makes Muslims intolerable in modern society. There many other undesirable aspects to Islam but taqiyya and kitman represent an insurmountable barrier to any trust whatsoever. This renders Islam a threat at all times no matter the situation. The West has yet to understand this by even 1%.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-04 12:34  

#5  mhw, it doesn't matter what they say. A Muslim can say anything that will help advance Islam. "Truth", "lie" - it doesn't matter.
Posted by: Rambler   2007-09-04 12:11  

#4  6 of the 8 arrested were citizens of Denmark.

I wonder is Denmark administers a loyalty oath to people becoming citizens. If not, they should, then have a muslim ask for a Fatwa on whether you should lie on your loyalty oath. Wait for the affirmative answer.

Then change immigration laws accordingly.
Posted by: mhw   2007-09-04 12:02  

#3  martyrdom seekers

What a bunch of medieval ignoramuses. Can we just martyr them wholesale in their mosques and madrassas right now? Spare the cafe diners and bus passengers in our own country?
Posted by: eLarson   2007-09-04 10:45  

#2  Funny how they mention cartoons in that excerpt and yet forgot to blame Haliburton and Bush's poodle Tony Bliar. Someone must have forgot to send al Qaeda the memo.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-09-04 09:18  

#1   He declined to comment on the target of the attack and which country it was planned for.

Here is a possible clue:

memri.org (follow the link for source quotes)

Excerpt:

On August 31, 2007, the Islamist website www.ekhlaas.cc, hosted by SiteGenie LLC in Rochester, Minnesota, posted a document calling for "martyrdom [i.e., suicide] operations" in Denmark. The author, who identified himself as a member of Al-Qaeda, urged the Muslims not to forget the incident of the Danish cartoons, and promised the people of Denmark that the "brigades of martyrdom seekers are on their way... and will soon carry out blessed operations" in their country. He called on the Muslims to register on the site as candidates for these suicide operations.

Posted by: mrp   2007-09-04 08:52  

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