Incident Date:
October 03, 2009
Incident Successful: No
Location: Copenhagen Denmark
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Facility/Infrastructure Attack
Weapon Type(s): Unknown
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Journalists & Media(Newspaper Journalists/Staff/Facilities)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: Yes
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "10/03/2009: Authorities arrested David Coleman Headly, 49, a U.S. born resident of Chicago at O'Hare Airport as he was ready to board a plane to Pakistan. He told the FBI that he had planned to attack a building occupied by Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper in Copenhagen that in 2005 had published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. He reportedly had conspired to do so during a meeting in 01/2009 with Ilyas Kahmiri, operation Chief of 313 Brigade commando group - an Al Qaida affiliate in Pakistan, and former Pakistani military officer, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48. After a predatory strike that was reported - incorrectly - to have killed Kashmiri, Headley turned to another group, Lashkar-e-Taiba. Rana was arrested on 10/18 and charged with conspiring to support terrorists. Pakistani born Rana became a Canadian citizen, who lived in Chicago. He and Headly attended a military school in Hasan Abdal, Pakistan."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. (2013). Terrorism, 2008-2012: A Worldwide Chronology. North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers. p. 87"
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