Danish Cartoonist Attacker Suspected Of Al Qaeda Ties

Rueters reports that a 28 year-old "Somali man armed with an axe and suspected of links with al Qaeda broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused global Muslim outrage and was shot and wounded by police... Danish police intelligence said they believed the 'attempted assassination ... is terror related' and accused the man, who was not named, of having links with Somalia's al-Shabaab militant group as well as al Qaeda militants. The cartoonist, 74, pushed a panic button, fled to a safe room and was unhurt when police arrived. His grand-daughter was in the house during the attack. Police could not confirm reports he had tried to break down the safe room door with the axe. Westergaard, who in 2005 depicted Prophet Mohammad with a bomb in his turban, has been under police protection since his caricatures of the Prophet led to death threats." Tweet