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Danes face worst terror threat in years

COPENHAGEN: Denmark faces the worst terror threat in many years with a possible attack happening at any time, officials said on Wednesday.

Denmark’s intelligence service said the publication of 12 Danish drawings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Denmark’s military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan have helped focus extremists’ attention on Denmark.

“Right now, Denmark faces the worst threat assessment in many years and a terror attack can take place without any warning,” the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, or the PET, said in a report. “There are people and groups at home that are planning acts of terror here or abroad.”

The 86-page annual report also said that extremists abroad wanted to target Denmark or Danish interests aboard.

On June 2, a car bomb killed six people outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad. Two months before that attack, the PET had warned of a terror threat from militants, especially in North Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The PET also cited military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as having increased the threat of attack.

Since 2005, Danish police have foiled four alleged terror plots, mostly involving home-grown extremists accused of preparing terror acts in Denmark or other countries. ap

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