The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people allegedly plotting a "terror-related assassination" of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist behind the drawing.īerlingske Tidende, was one of the newspapers involved in the republication by newspapers in Denmark. Prosecutors said the information about the undercover officer was classified at the time of the trial.(CNN) - Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago. The agent drove away and was stopped by police. In the months after his trial, authorities revealed for the first time that an undercover FBI agent had exchanged social media messages with Simpson days before the attack and was sitting in a vehicle outside the Garland convention center when the attack began.Īs the agent drove around Simpson and Soofi's car, which had stopped abruptly, the attackers got out and opened fire with military-style rifles. The camera outside Simpson and Soofi's apartment wasn't the first surprising disclosure made by federal authorities since Kareem was convicted in March 2016. They said Kareem expressed his desire to strap a bomb on his body to kill nonbelievers and celebrated the 2015 attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in what extremists claimed was retaliation for the publication of cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad. Kareem's attorneys pointed out the surveillance camera outside Simpson and Soofi's apartment didn't capture any footage of Kareem and argued the footage would have raised doubts at trial because it would be expected that a person serving as a trainer and motivator for such an attack would have been at the apartment to work out last-minute details.Īuthorities have said Kareem watched videos depicting violence by jihadists with the two friends, encouraged them to launch violent attack to support the terrorist group and researched travel to the Middle East to join Islamic State fighters. He also said he didn't share Simpson and Soofi's radical ideology. "The fact that the felony was dismissed and the government elected not to go to trial on it does not change what I feel is a just punishment," Bolton said.īefore the new sentence was imposed, Kareem acknowledged going shooting in the desert with Simpson and Soofi the months before the attack, but maintained he was innocent. Kareem was resentenced on his other four felony convictions, including two involving guns. Prosecutors later declined to retry Kareem on the charge. The judge, who concluded the failure to turn over the footage wasn't an act of bad faith but rather an oversight, granted Kareem a new trial on the charge in question. The FBI didn't turn over the video until nearly three years after the trial.īolton had previously ruled the government violated a requirement to turn over evidence that could be used by defendants to support their innocence or question the credibility of prosecution witnesses. Soofi wore a handgun on his hip, and both men carried duffel bags to Soofi's car. The footage showed the pair in religious clothing as they were leaving for Texas to carry out the attack. His friends, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, were killed outside event in a police shootout. Kareem, an American-born Muslim convert, was convicted of conspiring to provide the guns used in the attack carried out by two friends and conspiring with both friends to provide support to the Islamic State terror group. District Judge Susan Bolton declined to shave any time off his sentence for his convictions related to the attack on the anti-Islam event.
19 in response to the dismissal of the charge, had asked for a 7½-year prison term.īut U.S. PHOENIX (CBSDFW.COM/AP) - A judge has refused to reduce the 30-year prison sentence for an Arizona man convicted of helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas even though one of his convictions was dismissed after it was discovered the FBI had withheld surveillance video at his trial.Īttorneys for Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, who was resentenced Tuesday, Oct.
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