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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/03/kurt-westergaard-cartoon-muhammad-denmark
Assassin Shot in Danish Cartoonist's Home Has Links to Al-Qaeda
(Observer-UK) Tracy McVeigh - Danish police admitted Saturday that a Somalian caught breaking into the home of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, 74, was a would-be assassin with links to al-Qaeda. Westergaard's caricature of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban was first published by Jyllands-Posten in 2005. The 28-year-old attacker had an axe and a knife when he was shot and wounded by police late Friday. He heard windows being broken and pressed a panic alarm at his house in Aarhus. Westergaard said he locked himself and his five-year-old granddaughter in the bathroom as the assailant shouted "revenge" and "blood" and tried to smash his way into the house. The attacker had "close ties to the Somali terror organization al-Shabaab as well as to al-Qaeda leaders in East Africa," the Danish security and intelligence service, PET, said in a statement.