Charges were filed against Mikael Davud, Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, and David Jakobsen, who were arrested in July 2010 for plotting to attack a Danish newspaper. They are thought to have ties with al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan who planned bombings in New York and the UK. Bujak and Davud were charged additionally with planning to murder Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard; Davud also said he wanted to bomb the Chinese embassy in Oslo.
