Denmark's Security Intelligence Service (PET) has arrested several people in Copenhagen early today on suspicion of planning a bomb attack.
The arrests were the latest in a series of cases Danish agencies have pursued under anti-terrorism legislation passed after the September 11th, 2001, attacks in the United States.
In February, a Copenhagen court sentenced a Danish Muslim youth to seven years in prison for planning an attack in Europe, while clearing three others of similar charges. Prosecutors are seeking a retrial in one of the three acquittals.
In April, a Moroccan-born Dane was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on charges of inciting Muslims to holy war.
Four Muslim men in Denmark's third-largest city, Odense, are awaiting trial on charges of plotting a bomb attack in Denmark.