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Murder bid charge for cartoonist attacker
Danish police yesterday charged a Somali man with the attempted murder of a cartoonist whose caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) sparked protests around the world.The axe-wielding 28-year-old broke into Kurt Westergaard’s home late Friday, screaming for “revenge” and “blood.” The cartoonist hid in a panic room with a five-year-old granddaughter and called the police.Police said he threw the axe at one officer who arrived on the scene, just missing him, then attacked with a knife before they shot him in the arm and thigh.He was stretchered into court at Aarhus, northwest Denmark, yesterday wearing a hospital gown and covered with blankets, the Ritzau agency reported.He had one arm bandaged, a leg in a splint and a towel over his face to avoid identification, media reports said, while describing him as bearded with a shaved head.Charged with double attempted murder, he was remanded in custody for four weeks, the first two of them in solitary confinement, said a court spokesman.Although the accused has not been named, Danish intelligence officers say he lived near the capital Copenhagen and had been linked both to Somalia’s radical Shebab Islamic movement and the leaders of Al Qaeda in east Africa.“He is also suspected of being implicated in terrorist activities when he was in east Africa,” the statement added.“The individual arrested has also been a member of a terrorist network implanted in Denmark that has been under surveillance by PET for a long time.”Somalia’s radical Islamic Shebab group hailed the attack.“We appreciate the incident in which a Muslim Somali boy attacked the devil who abused our Prophet Muhammad and we call upon all Muslims around the world to target people like (him),” spokesman Sheikh Ali Muhamud Rage said. AFP
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