Terror plot to kill paper staff foiled, says agency

SCANDINAVIAN intelligence chiefs said they had foiled a plot yesterday to kill staff at a Danish newspaper which published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and had arrested five suspects.

The head of Denmark’s PET intelligence service said his officers had detained four men while a spokes- woman for Swedish intelligence agency Saepo said a fifth man had been arrested in Stockholm in connection with the same plot against the Copenhagen-based Jyllands-Posten daily newspaper.

Several of the suspects could be described “as militant Islamists with connections to international terror networks,” PET chief Jakob Scharf said in a statement.