Man indicted for 2006 shooting attack on Norway's main synagogue

Norwegian authorities have filed charges against a Arfan Bhatti, 30, suspected of opening fire on the nation's main synagogue in Oslo in September, 2006, officials said Tuesday.

Bhatti was also indicted for conspiring to commit a terror attack on an embassy. The suspected targets were the U.S. or Israeli embassies, they said.

Bhatti was among three people indicted for terror-related offenses. All have denied any wrongdoing, and their attorneys said the basis for the indictments was weak.

Charges were also filed against Andreas Bog Kristiansen, 27, indicted with Bhatti on charges of plotting to use explosives or weapons to attack the U.S. or Israeli embassies, and conspiring to commit armed robbery.

Ibrahim Oezbabacan, 29, was indicted, with Bhatti, for either firing or being an accomplice to 13 shots being fired at the Oslo synagogue.

All charges related to the cases were dropped against a fourth man, said prosecutor Kristine Rise. He had been identified in earlier court rulings as 29-year-old Mohammed Adnan Nabi

The charges were in part based on recordings from an electronic bug police planted in one suspect's car, in which some suspects allegedly discussed blowing up the embassies.

Police won a court order Monday to continue holding Bhatti - who has been in detention since shortly after the synagogue shootings - for eight more weeks.

There two other suspects were released earlier.

No date had been set for the trial of the three suspects