Turkish Digest: Somali terrorist who tried to kill Danish Cartoonist Kurt Westergaard shot

Turkish Digest

ISSN No 1554-8414

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Somali terrorist who tried to kill Danish Cartoonist Kurt Westergaard shot

Danish police have shot and wounded an axe-wielding Somali terrorist who tried to break into the home of Kurt Westergaard, whose 2005 drawings of Prophet Muhammad outraged radical Muslims around the world.

Michael Larsen, a Danish police spokesman, said that authorities arrived at the house minutes after receiving an alarm alerting them to the intruder. " When the police found this person and he attacked the police with an axe and a knife, he was shot."

The Danish police showed clemency to the terrorist by not shooting him in the head but in the leg and hand instead. He is in hospital now.

For more: EU-Digest

Labels: Denmark, EU, Islam, Somali Terrorist

posted by A-News @ 7:24 AM

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