Danish-Moroccan Said Mansour was ordered held for four weeks by a judge in Copenhagen for inciting terror

Copenhagen Post:

After an arraignment hearing in which clips from videos promoting jihad and showing beheadings were shown as evidence, a Copenhagen judge ordered Moroccan-born Said Mansour held for four weeks on suspicion of inciting terror, reported national daily Politiken on Friday.

Chief prosecutor Lone Damgaard had requested that Mansour be imprisoned for four weeks while police conducted their investigation.

Mansour was arrested at his home in the Brønshøj area of Copenhagen yesterday. The police suspect him of distributing CDs and DVDs encouraging jihad against the Western world.

According to AP, the prosecution showed clips from several of the DVDs confiscated by the police in five searches carried out in conjunction with the arrest.

One of the DVDs showed Chechnyian Muslims beheading and shooting Russian soldiers. Another showed an American prisoner in Iraq being beheaded.

Yesterday's arrest was not Mansour's first run-in with authorities suspecting him of terror.

The Danish Security Intelligence Service (PET) attempted to apprehend Mansour in connection with terror activities in 2003 after Mansour was seen videotaping escape routes on a ferry to Norway. After searching his apartment, however, police merely charged him with possession of stolen goods.

Mansour has been an outspoken critic of the West's war on terror after the 11 September 2001 attacks against the US.

'Osama bin Laden is called a terrorist, but he just defends Muslims against attacks from the US,' Mansour once told daily newspaper Information.

If convicted, Mansour could face a prison sentence of up to six years.

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