Ireland: Three released in Vilks plot
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Three of seven Muslims arrested over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog have been released without charge, Irish police said Friday.
The three, two women and one man, were freed after three-and-a-half days of questioning. Three men and one woman remain in custody.
The group was arrested Tuesday over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who has a 100,000-dollar (74,000-euro) bounty on his head from an Al-Qaeda-linked group.
"They were released without charge," a Garda (Irish police) spokesman told AFP.
Those arrested were three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian, a Croatian and a US national, a police source told AFP on Thursday. They ranged in age from mid 20s to late 40s.
Suspects can be held for up to a week after their arrest without charge. Police are preparing files on the three who were released for the country's director of public prosecutions, meaning they could still face charges.
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In Leadville, Colorado, a woman identified the woman held as her daughter, 31-year-old Jamie Paulin-Ramirez. Christine Mott said she was informed of Paulin-Ramirez's arrest by the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies.
Mott said her daughter disappeared last September and later told her family she went to Ireland with her 6-year-old son and married an Algerian whom she met online.
Denver FBI officials said Saturday they couldn't confirm that the FBI had contacted Mott about the case. Irish police refused to confirm whether Paulin-Ramirez is the woman in custody, and have declined to release the identities of any of those arrested.
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Sources: AP, AFP (English)
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Three of seven Muslims arrested over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog have been released without charge, Irish police said Friday.
The three, two women and one man, were freed after three-and-a-half days of questioning. Three men and one woman remain in custody.
The group was arrested Tuesday over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who has a 100,000-dollar (74,000-euro) bounty on his head from an Al-Qaeda-linked group.
"They were released without charge," a Garda (Irish police) spokesman told AFP.
Those arrested were three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian, a Croatian and a US national, a police source told AFP on Thursday. They ranged in age from mid 20s to late 40s.
Suspects can be held for up to a week after their arrest without charge. Police are preparing files on the three who were released for the country's director of public prosecutions, meaning they could still face charges.
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In Leadville, Colorado, a woman identified the woman held as her daughter, 31-year-old Jamie Paulin-Ramirez. Christine Mott said she was informed of Paulin-Ramirez's arrest by the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies.
Mott said her daughter disappeared last September and later told her family she went to Ireland with her 6-year-old son and married an Algerian whom she met online.
Denver FBI officials said Saturday they couldn't confirm that the FBI had contacted Mott about the case. Irish police refused to confirm whether Paulin-Ramirez is the woman in custody, and have declined to release the identities of any of those arrested.
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Sources: AP, AFP (English)
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