(Adds Detail) By Charles Duxbury Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES STOCKHOLM (Dow Jones)--Courts in both Denmark and Sweden Thursday ruled to detain the men accused of planning a terrorist attack on the Copenhagen office of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten while state prosecutors build their cases against the suspects. A district court in Glostrup, near Copenhagen, decided to hold three men, named in the Swedish press as Swedish citizens Munir Awad, 29, and Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, 30, and Tunisian citizen and resident of Sweden Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, 44, for four weeks earlier Thursday. Meanwhile in Sollentuna, on the edge of Stockholm, Attunda district court granted Chief Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand's request to hold 37 year-old Sahbi Zalouti until charges are brought January 13. All four detainees are suspected of "preparing terrorist crimes" while the three men held in Denmark are also suspected of illegal possession of a weapon. "The investigat...
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