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Danes seize suspects over plot against 'anti-Mohammed' cartoonists
By Reuters
Tags: Denmark, Mohammed cartoons 

Several people were arrested in Denmark on Tuesday in connection with a plot to murder one of the 12 cartoonists whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused worldwide uproar in 2006, Danish media said.

According to Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that originally published the cartoons in September 2005, the suspects are accused of planning to kill 73-year-old Kurt Westergaard. He drew the cartoon that caused the most controversy, depicting Mohammad with a bomb in his turban.
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Danish news agency Ritzau said police would not give details of the case before the Security and Intelligence Service holds a news conference later in the day to announce the arrests.

The cartoons initially went largely unnoticed, but were later reprinted outside Denmark and eventually provoked outrage among Muslims, most of whom deem any depiction of Mohammad as offensive.

Three Danish embassies were attacked and at least 50 people were killed in rioting in the Middle East and Asia.

Since then, several young Muslims have been convicted in Denmark of planning bomb attacks partly as a protest against the cartoons.
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  1.   Young muslims planning bomb attacks in Denmakr 12:19  |  Johnny 12/02/08
  2.   Sad and ugly 12:45  |  Cheops 12/02/08
  3.   Dutch Cartoons 13:02  |  Dan 12/02/08
  4.   Put all muslims out of Europe! 13:14  |  El_Justiciero 12/02/08
  5.   Mohammad with a bomb in his turban 13:15  |  akiva (zionist) 12/02/08
  6.   Another Moh`d cartoon (:-(((((((( 13:25  |  ziggurat 12/02/08
  7.   # 1 Johnny, something about them makes them go BOOOOOM! 13:25  |  Petra 12/02/08
  8.   # 4 Ausrtralias PM has asked them to leave. 13:29  |  Petra 12/02/08
  9.   Cheops, terror end with death.( theirs) 13:32  |  Petra 12/02/08
  10.   moslems need to seriously chill out 14:22  |  don 12/02/08
  11.   ZIONISTS: CHILL OUT!... YOU DON`T MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO.... 14:54  |  TripleJump 12/02/08
  12.   DON"T CALL THEM VIOLENT! THEY"LL KILL YOU 15:01  |  judith 12/02/08
  13.   Let`s make a deal El-Justiciero 15:15  |  anti-racist 12/02/08
  14.   Muslims in Europe ARE EUROPEAN CITIZENS 15:37  |  Eric 12/02/08
  15.   reprint! 15:44  |  Lars 12/02/08
  16.   Murder will teach those cartoonists that Mohammad is peaceful 17:27  |  Michael 12/02/08
  17.   to anti-racist#13 17:27  |  Ilya 12/02/08
  18.   to TrippleJump#11 17:34  |  Ilya 12/02/08
  19.   Re #11, Actually it`s the Muslims who never miss an opportunity.. 17:40  |  Michael 12/02/08
  20.   Eric #14 Slander & incitement ??? 18:29  |  Free Gilad Shalit 12/02/08
  21.   Eric - Be careful what you wish for... Soon the EU Muslims will 18:32  |  mk 12/02/08
  22.   Do not knock anothers religious beliefs. ! 18:35  |  Stephen. 12/02/08
  23.   Re: Muslims in Europe are citizens 18:39  |  Renwaa 12/02/08
  24.   TripleJump 18:53  |  The Gentile 12/02/08
  25.   #14- is it erik or muhamed 18:55  |  mira 12/02/08
  26.   Then Why put rivisionist in Jail 18:56  |  Mike 12/02/08
  27.   # 4 19:02  |  Jake 12/02/08
  28.   petra # 8 19:04  |  Bob 12/02/08
  29.   #27 JAKE-i bet no one here knows what you are talking about. 22:30  |  miras 12/02/08
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