A Danish newspaper was shocked Tuesday at revelations of a new plan to attack its offices after it published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad five years ago, its chief editor said.
Norwegian police announced earlier Tuesday that an Iraqi Kurd in custody in Norway admitted to plotting an attack on Denmark's largest daily, Jyllands-Posten.
"This is not a case we have heard of before," editor in chief Joern Mikkelsen said on the newspaper's website. "As with previous revelations of terror plots against Jyllands-Posten, this is very shocking for the paper's employees and their families. Nonetheless, we feel we are in very good hands with the police and the security police."
Kurt Westergaard, the creator of the most controversial of the 12 drawings -- which showed the Muslim prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse -- also faced numerous death threats.
On Jan. 1, a Somali man suspected of having ties to al Shebab and the leaders of al Qaeda in east Africa broke into Westergaard's home armed with an ax. The artist saved himself by hiding in a bathroom with an armored door until the suspect could be arrested.
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