Tuesday, February 12, 2008

3 arrested in plot to kill cartoonist

NYT:

Two Tunisians and a Dane were arrested in Denmark on Tuesday to prevent what the Danish police said was “a terror-related assassination” of one of 12 cartoonists behind caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in 2005 that provoked fury across the Muslim world.


These cretins were plotting to murder Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist who drew the most memorable of the Danish cartoons, the one depicting Muhammad wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb with a burning fuse. Westergaard's cartoon is shown above.