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Four convicted in Muhammad cartoon terror plot

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    Danish court sentences men to 12 years in prison for targeting newspaper

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Another -- the Danish court handing down a tough sentence for four men convicted today.

A plotting a terror attack police say that they were arrested just hours before launching.

A shooting Rampage as revenge against the publisher of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

-- intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is live Washington -- -- -- Catherine what are we learning about the crime.

-- -- short time ago the four men including three Swedes all of Middle Eastern or North African descent.

Were sentenced to twelve years in prison for a terrorist plot specifically targeting this Danish newspaper that published those controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005.

The -- -- share in the profits head on the body of the dog.

And these cartoons were the catalyst for worldwide demonstrations.

-- Qaeda and specifically at some.

Only -- -- -- could use these cartoons and their propaganda recruits into spawned plots against the Danish cartoonist Kurt wins to guard.

In this case the court case the court was told that there were surveillance tapes where -- -- explicitly talked about cutting the throats of incidents have there.

And this isn't the first plots against the cartoonist is it.

Well what's key here -- the cartoons according to US counterterrorism officials.

Is the staying power of its propaganda value they've been at least three plots targeting the cartoonist Kurt -- guard last year Somali man with apparent links to -- -- Was sentenced to ten years for attempting to break -- to his home and murder him.

And here in the US to high profile cases of homegrown terrorism.

Jihad Jane whose real name is calling the rose and -- hi Jamie whose name is Jamie -- Rivera's.

-- convicted in -- also targeting that Danish cartoonist -- Catherine Herridge reporting live for us from Washington thank you -- Iraq.

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