al-Qaeda Sent Militants to Denmark To Kill Cartoonists, Report

[ECH1969]

The al-Qaeda terrorist network sent 12 of its militants to Denmark in order to assasinate those who drew the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, according to Hamid Mir, the journalist who interviewed Osama bin Laden shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

According to an interview with the website of satellite television network al-Arabiya, Mir was brought to Waziristan, Pakistan's tribal area, in a zone believed to be run by the Taliban leader Abdullah Mahsud, where he met with some representatives of the Taliban.

These sources told Mir that 12 members of al-Qaeda left Afghanistan and entered Iran with the intention of traveling to Denmark in order to kill the cartoonists that have drawn the Prophet Mohammed. Islam explicitly prohibits any depiction of the Prophet.

The cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed were first published in a Danish daily in September and then republished in other newspapers around the world. The caricatures sparked violent protests around the Muslim world in which at least 50 people died.

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[babylonsister]

1. To me, this story was a non-entity then and still is. I know it got

many people in an uproar, but I don't understand why.

[Kagemusha]

2. Sounds like something I'd make up for propaganda

Why waste 12 warm bodies when you can build outrage bloodlessly?