<p>The court's justices rejected an appeal by police against the yesterday ruling of the Oslo Appeals Court, which had decided that David Jakobsen, a 32-year-old Uzbek legally residing in Norway, should be released pending trial due to low flight risk.<br /><br />"He will be freed during the afternoon or evening after several formalities are completed," Jakobsen's lawyer Rene Ibsen told NTB.Jakobsen and Mikael Davud, a 39-year-old ethnic Uighur from China who is a Norwegian citizen, were arrested in Oslo on July 8.<br /><br />A third man, Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, a 7-year-old Iraqi Kurd who holds a Norwegian residence permit, was arrested in Germany and extradited to Norway.Norwegian police suspect the three were plotting a bombing and they are believed to have links to Al-Qaeda.<br /><br />Jakobsen is the only one of the three suspects to have not confessed. He tipped off police about the bombing plot but investigators suspect that he may have played a double role.<br />The other two suspects have rejected having any link to Al-Qaeda but have admitted to plotting an attack, although their versions of what the target was differ.<br /><br />Davud has said he aimed to attack the Chinese embassy in Oslo, while Bujak has claimed the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, renowned for having first published 12 controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, was the target.The two are to remain in custody until November 1, when a judge will determine if their detention should be extended.</p>
<p>The court's justices rejected an appeal by police against the yesterday ruling of the Oslo Appeals Court, which had decided that David Jakobsen, a 32-year-old Uzbek legally residing in Norway, should be released pending trial due to low flight risk.<br /><br />"He will be freed during the afternoon or evening after several formalities are completed," Jakobsen's lawyer Rene Ibsen told NTB.Jakobsen and Mikael Davud, a 39-year-old ethnic Uighur from China who is a Norwegian citizen, were arrested in Oslo on July 8.<br /><br />A third man, Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, a 7-year-old Iraqi Kurd who holds a Norwegian residence permit, was arrested in Germany and extradited to Norway.Norwegian police suspect the three were plotting a bombing and they are believed to have links to Al-Qaeda.<br /><br />Jakobsen is the only one of the three suspects to have not confessed. He tipped off police about the bombing plot but investigators suspect that he may have played a double role.<br />The other two suspects have rejected having any link to Al-Qaeda but have admitted to plotting an attack, although their versions of what the target was differ.<br /><br />Davud has said he aimed to attack the Chinese embassy in Oslo, while Bujak has claimed the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, renowned for having first published 12 controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, was the target.The two are to remain in custody until November 1, when a judge will determine if their detention should be extended.</p>