[8] Bektašević allegedly was an Internet recruiter, under the alias Maximus, for young Muslims to join the insurgency in Iraq.
According to the British newspaper The Times, citing police and intelligence sources, Bektašević had visited the former leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and run one of his web sites.
[4] At one stage the members of the cell released an online message that threatened a terror attack, using the name of al-Qaeda.
[4] According to news reports the four had been planning a terrorist attack in downtown Copenhagen, with Nørreport station, Field’s and Fisketorvet considered primary targets.
The Israeli team Maccabi Petah Tikva was supposed to play in the stadium and police suspected he might have been planning an attack there.
[11] Three of the four original suspects attracted security service attention when they traveled to London to visit Omar Bakri.
[5] Upon their arrest, they were found to have in their possession 20 kilograms (44 lb) of explosives, in addition to handguns, jihadist videos, and a suicide belt.
[6][5] Also retrieved in the raid was a video of Bektašević and Cesur in ski masks, surrounded by explosives and weapons, which was to be published following the attacks.
Searches at the residences of the four suspects disclosed 200000 Danish kroner (~35,000 USD) in cash and a substantial collection of Islamist propaganda material.
[16] After his arrest in Sarajevo, Bektašević was also interrogated by the British intelligence service MI5, who named him as the organizer of a suspected plot by Islamic terrorists to carry out multiple suicide bombings of the White House and the Capitol in Washington DC.
[17] The trial against Bektašević and three other men, the Danish Turk Cesur Abdulkadir and two Bosnian nationals named Bajro Ikanović and Senad Hasanović, started on 26 June 2006, in Sarajevo.
[24][25] In March 2009 the Swedish government granted a request by Bektašević to serve the remainder of his prison sentence in Sweden.