Danish Court Convicts 3 Men For Plotting Bomb Attack, Acquits 1

November 23, 2007 8:39 a.m. EST

Copenhagen, Denmark (AHN) - One of Denmark's most discussed terror cases brought a Palestinian refugee, an Iraqi Kurd and a Danish convert to Islam into judgment on Friday for alleged plotting of bomb attack.

A fourth defendant was cleared in the case, which branched from a 2006 anti-terror brush off prompted by tips from an informant who pervaded the group.

The Eastern High Court in Copenhagen gave out guilty judgment to Mohammad Zaher, 34, Ahmad Khaldhadi, 22 and Abdallah Andersen, 32.

The 19-year-old man, Riad Anwer Daabas was acquitted.

The three judges who lead the case were about to hand down sentences later Friday.

The trial was held on September 5, exactly a year after the three men were seized in a 400-police-lead operation in the central Denmark city of Odense.

Authorities stated that they discovered a bomb-making manual and a bottle with 50 grams of triacetone triperoxide, an explosive chemical, in the house of Zaher.

The explosive was used by the four suicide bombers who killed 52 passengers in the subways and buses of London on July 7, 2005.