A survey of Swedish and Danish newspapers conducted by SORO Research, Inc
indicates that:
· The arrested terror suspects have links with networks abroad,
possibly to David Headley, directed by Ilyas Kashmiri (LeT, 313 Brigade) to
surveil Danish targets
· Current criminal charge: weapons possession
o 1:09 millimeter pistol with 36 rounds
o machine gun with silencer and 72 rounds “sharp”
o flex-cuffs
· Group was under 24/7 surveillance by SAPO last two months
o Rented bugged rental car (Toyota Avensis Sedan, rented from Statoil
in Kista, Stockholm) and drove to Copenhagen over the Oresund Bridge on
12/28; arrested 12/29; thought to be going operational before 1 Jan 2011
o Targets thought to be Jyllands-Posten newspaper offices, City Hall
o Arrested at an apartment in Herlev, suburb of Copenhagen
· Suspect Munir Awad, aged 29, pob Lebanon; Swedish citizen since 1987
–
o Previously arrested in Pakistan in 2009 along with former Guantanamo
prisoner and Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali, held 43 days then released
following pressure from the Swedish government
§ Awad denied all allegations and explained that they were on
pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia but also travelled to Pakistan to attend a
conference in Lahore
§ Part of a group of 9 foreigners thought by Pakistani police to be
travelling in the company of a terror suspect heading to northern Waziristan
to meet Zahir Noor, a suspected Taliban leader.
o Awad’s mother-in-law Helena Benaouda is Chairperson of Muslim
Council of Sweden
o Awad and his wife, then 17 years old and pregnant, were also
arrested in Somalia in 2007 by Ethiopian and Kenyan forces; transferred to
Ethiopia for interrogation, they were held as prisoners for over three
months before being released.
o Has debts of 50,000 kroner ($7500) owed to Swedish Enforcement
Authority as well as unpaid student fees
o Previously convicted of assault against a security officer while
drunk
o Arrested August 2009 in Baluchistan, Pakistan for entering country
without a visa; held “several months” and deported to Sweden
· Suspect Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, aged 30,pob unknown
o Previously charged and convicted at age 19 of assault, molestation
and sexual assault
· Suspect Mounir Dhari, aged 44, pob Tunisia
o Previously convicted of assault and unlawful threats. In 2000, he
was sentenced to fines for assault and assault against his former wife. In
2004, he was sentenced to a three-month prison sentence for threatening
store employees and assaulting his former wife.
· Suspect Sahbi Zalouti, aged 37, pob Tunisia
o Arrested by SAPO shortly before noon on Wednesday at his apartment
in the Jakobsberg neighborhood of Järfälla municipality, north of Stockholm,
Sweden;
o suspected as planner of operation but stayed behind in Sweden
o Emigrated to Sweden in 1998, became Swedish citizen in 2001
o Petitioned Swedish authorities (Equality Ombudsman) in 2008 on
charges of labor harassment and bullying
o Zalouti’s imam said that Zalouti had become increasingly devout over
the last year and stopped attending services at the mosque about five months
ago
o Recently divorced his wife, ordered her to return to Tunisia “a few
days ago”
· Suspect A. Salman, aged 26 pob Iraq
o Asylum petitioner, resident of Denmark, released for lack of
evidence, remains a suspect
o Reportedly met two of the other suspects when he traveled to
Stockholm to propose to a woman there
o Subsequently arranged for the Swedes to stay at the Herlev,
Copenhagen apartment of a friend traveling abroad, where the three Swedes
were arrested 12/30
o Reported disabled cancer survivor (loss of sight in one eye, hearing
in one ear), was a plumbers apprentice prior to taking ill two years ago
o Lives with parents. Described as calm, quiet, “ultra religious”
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