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Police Arrest Several Suspects in Plot to Kill Muhammad Cartoonist
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several
people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the
Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked an uproar in the Muslim world two
years ago.
The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, "to
prevent a terror-related murder," the police intelligence agency said. It
did not say how many people were arrested nor did it mention which
cartoonist was targeted.
However, according to Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first
published the drawings on Sept. 30, 2005, the suspects were planning to kill
its cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
"There were very concrete murder plans against Kurt Westergaard," said
Carsten Juste, the paper's editor-in-chief.
The cartoons were later reprinted by a range of Western publications, and
they sparked deadly protests in parts of the Muslim world.
Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favorable,
for fear it could lead to idolatry.
Westergaard, 73, and his wife Gitte, 66, had been living under police
protection because of the murder plans, Jyllands-Posten reported. It said
those arrested included both Danish and foreign citizens.
"Of course I fear for my life when the police intelligence service say that
some people have concrete plans to kill me. But I have turned fear into
anger and resentment," Westergaard said in a statement published on
Jyllands-Posten's Web site.
PET, the police intelligence service, called the action "preventive," saying
it decided to strike "at an early phase to stop the planning and the
carrying out of the murder."
Police Arrest Several Suspects in Plot to Kill Muhammad Cartoonist
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several
people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the
Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked an uproar in the Muslim world two
years ago.
The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, "to
prevent a terror-related murder," the police intelligence agency said. It
did not say how many people were arrested nor did it mention which
cartoonist was targeted.
However, according to Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first
published the drawings on Sept. 30, 2005, the suspects were planning to kill
its cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
"There were very concrete murder plans against Kurt Westergaard," said
Carsten Juste, the paper's editor-in-chief.
The cartoons were later reprinted by a range of Western publications, and
they sparked deadly protests in parts of the Muslim world.
Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favorable,
for fear it could lead to idolatry.
Westergaard, 73, and his wife Gitte, 66, had been living under police
protection because of the murder plans, Jyllands-Posten reported. It said
those arrested included both Danish and foreign citizens.
"Of course I fear for my life when the police intelligence service say that
some people have concrete plans to kill me. But I have turned fear into
anger and resentment," Westergaard said in a statement published on
Jyllands-Posten's Web site.
PET, the police intelligence service, called the action "preventive," saying
it decided to strike "at an early phase to stop the planning and the
carrying out of the murder."
