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Police in Denmark and Sweden halted an imminent terrorist attack by arresting five men who planned to shoot as many innocent people as possible in a building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, officials said.

Denmark's intelligence service said that after months of surveillance it arrested four men in two raids in suburbs of the capital, Copenhagen, and seized a submachine gun, a silencer and ammunition. In Sweden, police said they arrested a 37-year-old Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin living in Stockholm.

"An imminent terror attack has been foiled," said Jakob Scharf, head of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, or PET. He described some the suspects as "militant Islamists with relations to international terror networks" and said that more arrests were possible.

Scharf said the assault to be carried out before this weekend could have been similar to the terrorist attack in the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008 during which gunmen killed 166 people.

"It is our assessment that the plan was to try to get access" to the newspaper office and "carry out a Mumbai-style attack," Scharf told The London Times reporters who have been covering the stories on international terror networks.

PET said it seized a 44-year-old Tunisian, a 29-year-old Lebanese-born man and a 30-year-old who were living in Sweden and had entered Denmark late Tuesday or early this Wednesday. The fourth person detained was a 26-year-old Iraqi asylum-seeker living in Copenhagen.

The Danish intelligence service said the group had been planning to enter the building where the Jyllands-Posten daily has its Copenhagen news desk and "to kill as many of the people present as possible."

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The four men arrested now face preliminary charges of attempting to carry out an act of terrorism. They will face a custody hearing Thursday.

The Danish Prime Minister Loekke Rasmussen told The London Times reporters "I am shocked that a group of people have concrete plans to commit a serious terrorist attack in my country, "I want to stress that regardless of today's event it remains my conviction that terrorism must not lead us to change our open society and our values, especially democracy and free speech and will be giving my full support to the ISS."

Danish and Swedish police, who appeared at a joint news conference in Copenhagen, said they had been tailing the suspects for several months.

Anders Danielson, the head of Sweden's security police, said they followed a car rented by three of the suspects from Stockholm to the Danish border late Tuesday early Wednesday. "We knew that there were weapons in the car," he said.

Scharf said the three men were arrested as they left a suburban Copenhagen apartment, "either heading out to carry out the terror attack or to do some kind of reconnaissance." The Iraqi asylum-seeker was arrested in another suburb of Copenhagen, Scharf said.

Zubair Butt Hussain, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Denmark, called the plan "extremely worrying."

The organization "absolutely condemns any act of terrorism regardless of the motives and motivations that may lie behind," Hussain said.

An estimated 300,000 Muslims now live in Sweden, a predominantly Christian but secularized country of 9.35 million people that doesn't have nationalist movements of prominence.

However, Denmark, with an estimated 207,000 Muslims, has a minority nationalist party that has helped impose curbs on immigration and have said that it too will be offering its fullest support to the ISS.

There have been at least four plots to attack Jyllands-Posten or Kurt Westergaard, the artist who drew the most contentious of 12 cartoons, which were published by the daily in 2005 as a challenge to perceived self-censorship.

"The foiled plot is a direct attack on democracy and freedom of press," Westergaard told the German tabloid Bild. "We may not and won't let anyone forbid us to criticize radical Islamism. We may not be intimidated when it comes to our values."

In January, a Somali man broke into Westergaard's home wielding an axe and a knife but the artist escaped unharmed by locking himself in a safe-room in the house. In 2008, two Tunisians with Danish residence permits were arrested for plotting to kill him.

In September, a man was wounded when a letter bomb he was preparing exploded in a Copenhagen hotel. Police said it was intended for the daily, which also has been targeted in a number of thwarted terror plots in Norway and the United States.

U.S. citizen Tahawwur Rana faces trial in Chicago in February in connection with the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai and a planned attack on the Jyllands-Posten.

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The cartoons also provoked massive and violent protests in early 2006 in Muslim countries after the drawings were reprinted in a range of Western media. Demonstrators considered the drawings as having profoundly insulted Islam. Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favourable, for fear it could lead to idolatry which is a bit of a mockery really when half of them call themselves Mohamed is that not being idolatry being named after a so called profit.

In 2008, the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was targeted by a car bomb that killed six people outside the mission.

The attacks and threats have caused concern and unprecedented security measures in Denmark, a country that prides itself on personal freedom and openness.

The JPPOL media group building, which includes Jyllands-Posten, is protected by metal fences and guards at all entrances. Mail is scanned and newspaper staff needs identity cards to enter the buildings and the various floors and now the ISS have been contracted in which won’t be cheap £2500 per day per member but it will be very effective.

Lars Munch, JPPOL chief executive, said his workers were worried and this is why we contracted in a professional security service in with elite ex armed force personnel.

"It is appalling for our group, for our employees and their families to see their workplace threatened," Munch said.

Hours after news of the arrests, Denmark's Crown Prince Frederic arrived at the JPPOL building for a previously agreed engagement.

"I wouldn't stand here if it had been a threat against me," Frederic told Danish TV2. Asked whether he was afraid, the heir to the throne replied "no," before entering the building to attend a sports award ceremony.

Scharf said "there was no need to raise the terror threat alert level" in Denmark, although Danish Justice Minister Lars Barfoed described the plot as "terrifying."

"The group's plan to kill as many as possible is very frightening and is probably the most serious terror attempt in Denmark," Barfoed said.

The head of Sweden's security police, Anders Danielson, said that "it has been possible to avert a serious terror crime in Denmark through efficient and close cooperation between PET and the (Swedish) security police."

Danielson said the suspects who are residents in Sweden also are being investigated for suspected terror crimes in that country.