COPENHAGEN (AFP)--Two Tunisians detained in Denmark for allegedly plotting to kill a cartoonist who satirized the Prophet Mohammed, had planned to strangle their target, according to intelligence documents cited by media Thursday.
Documents belonging to the Danish PET intelligence agency indicate the two suspects, aged 26 and 36, had carefully planned the foiled attack on Kurt Westergaard earlier this year, free daily Nyhedsavisen wrote on its Web site.
The youngest of the two Tunisians was a martial arts expert who was supposed to strangle Westergaard, Nyhedsavisen wrote.
The pair were arrested on Feb. 12 before the alleged plot could be put into practice.
Westergaard, 73, was one of 12 cartoonists who drew caricatures of the prophet for a Danish newspaper in September 2005 that sparked angry and in some cases deadly protests across the Muslim world in early 2006. Read more ...
Documents belonging to the Danish PET intelligence agency indicate the two suspects, aged 26 and 36, had carefully planned the foiled attack on Kurt Westergaard earlier this year, free daily Nyhedsavisen wrote on its Web site.
The youngest of the two Tunisians was a martial arts expert who was supposed to strangle Westergaard, Nyhedsavisen wrote.
The pair were arrested on Feb. 12 before the alleged plot could be put into practice.
Westergaard, 73, was one of 12 cartoonists who drew caricatures of the prophet for a Danish newspaper in September 2005 that sparked angry and in some cases deadly protests across the Muslim world in early 2006. Read more ...
Source: AFP
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