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| Cartoonist attack suspect on Kenyan watch-list |
| 2010-01-05 |
| The 28-year-old Somali man charged with attempted murder of a Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard on New Year's Day has been on Kenya's terror watch-list. The man identified by the Kenyan police as Mohammed Muhideen Gelle, had been once arrested by the force after he arrived in the country ahead of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit last year, Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said on Monday. The suspect, whose identity was not released in Denmark due to a Danish court ban, broke into Westergaard's house on Friday armed with a knife and an axe shouting "revenge." He was shot twice by a police officer who arrived at the scene. The court has ordered that he remain in custody for four weeks on charges of attempting to murder the cartoonist and the police officer who shot him. On September 30, 2005, the Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve sacrilegious cartoons aimed at defaming Islam. One of the cartoons published was created by Westertgaard. As a result, over 3,000 Muslim's took part in peaceful protests in Copenhagen, and million of others took part in similar demonstrations elsewhere in the world. Denmark's ambassador to Kenya, Bo Jensen, told the Danish news agency Ritzau's Bureau I/S that the suspect had been taken into custody in Kenya for incomplete travel documents. Immigration charges were later dropped and he was released from police custody due to a lack of evidence. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) revealed in a statement that Westergaard's attacker has close ties with Somalia's Al-Shabab militants as well as with "al-Qaeda leaders in East Africa." Kiraithe said that the suspect had been observed associating with individuals on Kenyan terror watch-list. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 We need to set up a series of traps. Then release some really anti-Islamic cartoons and let it slip that the cartoonist is living in the trap. Then bag the bastards that come and get him. Repeat as necessary. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-01-05 17:15 |