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Danish Police: Cartoonist's Attacker Shot

   VOA News 01 January 2010

   Danish  police  say they have shot a Somali man who attempted to enter
   the  home  of  cartoonist  Kurt  Westergaard, whose controversial 2005
   caricatures  of  the  Prophet Muhammad sparked riots across the Muslim
   world.
   Police  said  late  Friday  that  the  suspect, armed with an ax and a
   knife, has close ties to the Somali terrorist group, al-Shabaab.
   The  27-year-old  intruder,  who tried to enter Westergaard's home (in
   Viby)  near  the  western  city  of  Aarhus along with two others, was
   wounded and is now in police custody.   Westergaard was not injured.
   The  cartoonist  told the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that he ran
   to  an  area he calls the "panic room" from where he could call police
   who are stationed nearby.
   Westergaard  is  one  of  12  Danish cartoonists whose drawings of the
   Muslim  prophet  were  first published in Jyllands-Posten in September
   2005, triggering reprisals leading to dozens of deaths.

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