Norway's Supreme Court upholds terror convictions in al-Qaida plot against Danish newspaper
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Norway's highest court has upheld guilty convictions against two men involved in a 2010 al-Qaida 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 terror charges but convicted of helping the others acquire explosives.
In its Friday decision, the Supreme Court quashed their appeals, finding the men guilty.
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Investigators say the plot was linked to the same al-Qaida planners behind thwarted attacks against the New York subway system and a shopping mall in Manchester, England, in 2009. Norwegian investigators, who worked with their U.S. counterparts, said they had been building a bomb in an Oslo basement.