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Police Arrest Several Suspects in Plot to Kill Muhammad Cartoonist

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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.

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Its ironic to me that while some sectors of the Muslim world make a petition for some pictures of their prophet to be removed, you have another group ploting to kill a man over some drawings.

Its just goes to show you how you have fanatics on one side discrediting this religion and some moderates in the other.

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Originally posted by Bunch


Its ironic to me that while some sectors of the Muslim world make a petition for some pictures of their prophet to be removed, you have another group ploting to kill a man over some drawings.

Its just goes to show you how you have fanatics on one side discrediting this religion and some moderates in the other.

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Id wager most of those petitioners are also fanatics

Bunch beat me to it! Gotta get up early to scoop the ATS news hounds

I am just posting up my submissions from mine that got closed, it has some other sources and some links to ATS threads concerning this subject.

Danish Police Say Muhammad-Cartoons Death Plot Foiled

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Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Danish police arrested suspects in an alleged plot to murder one of a dozen cartoonists whose caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005 sparked riots in Muslim communities around the world.

Denmark's Security and Intelligence Service, PET, detained an unspecified number of people at 4:30 a.m. local time today in Aarhus, where Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that commissioned the cartoons, is based.

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Related News Links:
www.timesonline.co.uk
www.cnn.com
www.washingtonpost.com

Related AboveTopSecret.com Discussion Threads:
Denmark On Muhammeds Naughty List
NEWS: Cartoon protests turn deadly
Bounty Set Over Prophet Cartoon

Among the arrested were Danish citizens as well as foreign born Islamic extremists according to the article.

Another interesting snippet from the story is the economic impact to businesses of the country when parts of Africa and Asia stopped importing their goods due to the aftermath of the 2005 cartoon.

The suspected assassins planned to kill Kurt Westergaard, the artist, at his home.

I wonder if the artist from Sweden, Lars Vilks, who created a cartoon and a bounty was set last fall, is getting the same protection as Westergaard.


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[edit on 2/12/2008 by JacKatMtn]

reply to post by blueorder

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Well you can make the argument that everyone that follows a religion is a fanatic.

Me personally would like them to make a petition than having them ploting to kill someone.

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