Two Muslim men have been charged in the Irish Republic in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.
Algerian Ali Charafe Damache and Abdul-Salam Mansour Al-Jehani from Libya were brought before a special late night court sitting in the Irish Republic on Monday.
Damache was charged with sending a menacing text message while Al-Jehani was charged with an immigration offence.
The men were arrested last week over an international conspiracy to kill Lars Vilks, whose controversial depictions of the Muslim prophet were printed in a newspaper in Sweden in 2007.
They were remanded in custody by a District Court judge in Waterford.
They were refused bail after detectives from An Garda Siochana warned they were not convinced the men's identities were authentic.
The men were among seven people arrested last Tuesday morning during a series of raids by anti-terrorist units acting on intelligence from the CIA, FBI and European agencies.
Mr Vilks has been under threat of death from Iraqi members of the Islamic terrorist group al Qaida.
They put a $100,000 bounty on the cartoonist's head, forcing him into police protection in an isolated area of Sweden.
US caretaker Colleen LaRose, who styled herself Jihad Jane in a YouTube video, was charged with plotting his murder bid.
The suspect was accused in the US of conspiring with jihadist fighters and pledging to commit murder in the name of a Muslim holy war, or jihad.
According to the US Justice Department, the 46-year-old, who also goes by the name Fatima LaRose, plotted with five others in South Asia, Eastern and Western Europe and the US to recruit men on the internet to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe.
They are also accused of recruiting women online to travel to and around Europe supporting violent jihad.
It is understood LaRose agreed to marry an online contact from South Asia so he could move to Europe.
US prosecutors said she was ordered to kill Mr Vilks in a way which would frighten "the whole Kufar (non-believer) world".
If convicted of the charges against her, LaRose faces a potential sentence of life in prison and a $1m fine.
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