Norway upholds convictions over al-Qaeda plot
Supreme court rejects appeals by two men who planned to attack Danish newspaper that caricatured Prophet Muhammad.
Norway’s highest court has upheld guilty convictions against two men involved in a 2010 al-Qaeda plot to attack a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.
Last year, a local court sentenced Mikael Davud to seven years in prison and co-defendant Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak to three and a half years.
A third defendant was acquitted of terrorism charges but convicted of helping the others acquire explosives.
Investigators say the plot was linked to the same al-Qaeda planners behind thwarted attacks against the New York subway system and a shopping centre in Manchester, England, in 2009.
Norwegian investigators, who worked with their US counterparts, said the men had been building a bomb in an Oslo basement.