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Danish police shoot, injure man trying to kill controversial cartoonist | Danish Police have confirmed shooting and injuring an al Qaeda-linked man armed with an axe who broke into the home of a controversial cartoonist Kurt Westergaard to kill
him. According to Sky News, police said the 28-year-old Somali man was trying
to kill Westergaard, who triggered worldwide protests after drawing cartoons of
Islam's Prophet Mohammed. The intruder was linked to Somali terror organisation
al Shabaab and al Qaeda leaders in east Africa, the Danish Security and Intelligence
Service PET said in a statement. The intruder was shot twice and is being held
in custody. Lotte Mejlhede, of TV2, told Sky News that Westergaard, 74, fled to
a safe room at his Aarhus home after spotting the would-be attacker. "He pressed
his panic alarm button because a 28-year-old Somalian was trying to break into
his house and actually got into the house. He had a knife and axe and was trying
to attack him. Mr Westergaard went to a safe room in his house. This man tried
to escape and attacked the police," said Mejlhede. Westergaard's five-year-old
grandson was also with him at the time of the incident. The Danish cartoonist
caused fury in the Islamic world four years ago after a Danish newspaper published
his drawings of Mohammed wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb. There were violent
protests in many Islamic countries that lead to dozens of deaths in Nigeria, Libya
and Pakistan. Demonstrators burned Danish flags in protests that culminated in
February 2006 with the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in Damascus and Beirut.
Westergaard received several death threats. Most Muslims consider any depiction
of the founder of Islam as offensive. |
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