An Iraqi immigrant accused of helping plot an attack against a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad said in an interview published Friday that he was an innocent man arrested while providing three other suspects with an apartment. Abdullah Muhammed Salman was released a day after his arrest Wednesday due to an apparent lack of evidence. Three men taken into custody with him remain in jail on charges attempting to carry out an act of terrorism and possession of illegal weapons. The police said they found a submachine gun,a handgun and ammunition in raids and believe the men were plotting to open fire inside the Copenhagen offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.Salman told the Ekstra Bladet newspaper that a Swedish acquaintance had asked him to find the apartment for a couple in Copenhagen. After arranging a sublet,Salman went to downtown Copenhagen to meet the couple,but instead three men he had previously met only briefly at a mosque in Sweden were waiting for him.I felt that I could not reject them and took them out to the apartment in Herlev, a Copenhagen suburb,where the three men were arrested. Salman was arrested in his home in another suburb.Under a court order,none of the suspects can be named,but Salman identified himself to the newspaper.
