Danes nab suspects in cartoonist plot

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

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 a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.

The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, "to prevent a terror-related murder," the police intelligence agency said. It did not say how many people were arrested nor did it mention which cartoonist was targeted.

However, according to Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the drawings on Sept. 30, 2005, the suspects were planning to kill its cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. It said those arrested included both Danish and foreign citizens.

"There were very concrete murder plans against Kurt Westergaard," said Carsten Juste, the paper's editor-in-chief.



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[MannyGoldstein]

1. Is There A Better Way To Say "Islamo-Fascists"?

I hate using a word coined by the Right - but that's what these people are, Islamo-Fascists.

[DBoon]

2. Islamic mafioso?

How about "common criminals"?

Not every fanatic with a grudge is a fierce totalitarian political movement

[INDIA]

3. common criminals kill for money...

these slimeballs kill because of their religiously motivated insanity. That's what it is. Plotting to kill somebody over a cartoon is insanity. Hell, rioting over a cartoon is insanity. LOTS of crazy people out there.

And I want to be the first to say...."CHriTIanz dos it too! Christianz are just as bads! Thier Evils! Series!"