Assassination Plot Busted

These guys must be really sensitive to plot a murder over a cartoon.

Danish authorities today arrested two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin in an alleged plot to murder a cartoonist who drew a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad, the police intelligence chief said.


The three suspects were arrested in a pre-dawn operation in Aarhus, western Denmark, said Jakob Scharf, the head of the PET intelligence service.

The purpose of the operation was "to prevent a terror related assassination of one of the cartoonists behind the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad," Scharf said in a statement.

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He said the 40-year-old Dane faced a preliminary charge of violating a Danish terror law, but would likely be released after questioning as the investigation continues. The two Tunisians would be expelled from Denmark because they were considered threats to national security, he said.

Authorities did not say which cartoonist was the intended target, but Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the drawings said the suspects were planning to kill its cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard.