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January 4, 2010

Somali Man Charged with Attacking Danish Cartoonist
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In Denmark, a Somali man has been charged with two counts of attempted
murder after breaking into the home of a Danish artist whose Prophet
Muhammad cartoon outraged the Muslim world three years ago. Authorities
say the Somali man broke into the house late Friday armed with an ax and
a knife. The seventy-four-year-old cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was not
injured in the attack. When he heard someone trying to break into his
home, he pressed an alarm and fled to a specially made safe room. His
five-year-old granddaughter was also in the house at the time.



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