Two men were convicted on 30 January by Oslo District Court in Norway
of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism. The convictions were the
first under Norwegian terrorism laws, and related to a plot to bomb the
Oslo offices of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten using homemade
hydrogen peroxide-based explosives. The attack was allegedly planned in
revenge for the newspaper’s controversial decision in 2008 to reprint 12
caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad it had originally published
in 2005.
Mikael Davud, 40, was sentenced to seven years in prison, while his co-conspirator Sawad Sadek Saeed Bujak, 38, was sentenced to three years and six months. A third man, David Jakobsen, 33, was acquitted of the more serious charges, but was sentenced to four months (already served on remand) for assisting the others in acquiring bomb-making materials. Both Davud and Bujak subsequently announced their intention to appeal.
The cell represented an unusual ethnic mix. Davud, formerly known as Muhammad Rashidin, is an ethnic Uighur from China who arrived in Norway in 1999 and was granted citizenship in 2007. Bujak is an Iraqi Kurd who was granted permanent residence after also arriving in 1999. Meanwhile, Jakobsen, formerly known as Abdulatif Alisje, came to Norway from Uzbekistan as an asylum seeker in 2002.
Mikael Davud, 40, was sentenced to seven years in prison, while his co-conspirator Sawad Sadek Saeed Bujak, 38, was sentenced to three years and six months. A third man, David Jakobsen, 33, was acquitted of the more serious charges, but was sentenced to four months (already served on remand) for assisting the others in acquiring bomb-making materials. Both Davud and Bujak subsequently announced their intention to appeal.
The cell represented an unusual ethnic mix. Davud, formerly known as Muhammad Rashidin, is an ethnic Uighur from China who arrived in Norway in 1999 and was granted citizenship in 2007. Bujak is an Iraqi Kurd who was granted permanent residence after also arriving in 1999. Meanwhile, Jakobsen, formerly known as Abdulatif Alisje, came to Norway from Uzbekistan as an asylum seeker in 2002.
