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Bust in Terror Plot to Kill Danish Cartoonist

Danish secret services make midnight arrests

By Lucas Laursen, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 12, 2008 7:29 AM CST

(Newser) – Danish police this morning arrested several people suspected of plotting to assassinate a cartoonist who had offended Muslims with a cartoon insulting the prophet Mohammed. The newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published a set of controversial cartoons in 2005, said the attempt was against one of 12... Read full story »

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