Arrested Muslims had prayer group plan

SOME of the seven Muslims arrested as part of an international probe into an alleged plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks had planned to set up an extremist prayer group in Waterford to radicalise other Muslims, gardaí believe.

Investigators are understood to be increasingly hopeful of bringing charges against a number of those arrested, either at the end of their detention period or in the months ahead.

Four computer specialists from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation are working around the clock in Waterford city examining computers and other items seized from the homes of those arrested.