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Moroccan born Muslim in Denmark on trial for incitement to terrorism - used publishing company to distribute Jihad books and videos

August 26, 2006

Mansour's lawyer Peter Hjorne, said last month that if charged he was confident that his client would be acquitted.

"I don't perceive any incitement to terrorism in Mansour's acts. It's religious fundamentalism," Hjorne told the Ritzau news agency.

Moroccan-born Dane charged with inciting terrorism
AFP

August 17, 2006 http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060817-092541-8626r

COPENHAGEN -- A Moroccan-born Dane has been charged with inciting local Muslims to carry out acts of terrorism, the Danish prosecutor's office said Wednesday.

Said Mansour, arrested last September, has been charged with contributing to terrorist activities, after receiving the required approval of the justice minister, the prosecutor's office said in a statement on its Website.

Mansour ran a publishing house named Al Nur Islamic Information, in the Danish capital.

According to Danish Attorney General Henning Fode, Mansour used the business to produce and distribute CDs, DVDs, films, and other propaganda openly inciting young Muslims to join the jihad, or holy war, against enemies of Islam.

Mansour is the first person to have been charged under Denmark's new anti-terrorism legislation adopted in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, Fode added in the statement.

Mansour, who is due to appear in court at an yet undetermined date, faces up to four years in jail if convicted.

The publisher had been under surveillance by European intelligence services since 2001, according to Danish media, and had contacts with a Spanish Al Qaeda cell.

He also met in London Abu Qatada, a Muslim cleric who has been in jail or under house arrest in Britain since 2002 on suspicion of posing a threat to national security.

Danish media have also alleged that Mansour maintained during the 1990s a postal box for Al Qaeda number two Ayman Al Zawahiri.

Mansour's lawyer Peter Hjorne, said last month that if charged he was confident that his client would be acquitted.

"I don't perceive any incitement to terrorism in Mansour's acts. It's religious fundamentalism," Hjorne told the Ritzau news agency.

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Terror charges for Danish Muslim

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4801123.stm

A Danish Muslim is to go on trial in Denmark on charges of inciting local Muslims to commit terrorist acts.

Moroccan-born Said Mansour is accused of distributing videos and other material calling for a holy war against the West.

Mr Mansour, who has been held on remand since last September, denies the accusations.

His trial will be the first in Denmark under the anti-terror laws introduced after the 11 September 2001 attacks.

Suspect videos

The prosecutor's office said that the justice minister had given approval for the case to proceed.

Under the new legislation the justice minister brings charges in cases concerning terrorism.

No date has yet been set for the trial.

Prosecutors say Mr Mansour used his publishing company, Al-Nur Islamic Information, in Copenhagen to produce and distribute audio and video material urging Muslims to wage a holy war.

He rejected the accusations, describing the videos as material already broadcast on major media networks.

Danish media allege that Mr Mansour has been under surveillance by European intelligence services since 2001 and that in London he met the cleric Abu Qatada, who has been in jail and under house arrest since 2002.

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