Oslo terror suspect says Chinese interests targeted: report

A man in custody in Norway on suspicion of plotting bombings with two accomplices said Tuesday that the planned attacks were aimed at Chinese interests, his lawyer told the NTB News Agency.

Mikael Davud, a 39-year-old ethnic Uyghur from China who is a Norwegian citizen, "has confessed under interrogation to plans to hit Chinese interests," his lawyer, Arild Humlen, told NTB.

"He has used the two other suspects as errand boys for the plans, and they knew nothing of his motives," Humlen added.

Davud's confession runs counter to the accounts of one of his accomplices, 37-year-old Iraqi Kurd Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, who said the three men had planned to attack the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which is renowned for publishing 12 controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in September 2005.

The other suspect was David Jakobsen, a 31-year-old Uzbek with a legal residence permit in Norway, who was arrested July 8 along with Davud.

The three men are suspected of preparing one or several attacks on targets that police had believed were in Norway.

According to police, the three had attempted to lay their hands on the necessary ingredients to produce explosives, including hydrogen peroxide, which the PST security police preventively swapped with a harmless liquid.

AFP