{"id":4035,"date":"2010-01-02T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/breaking-somali-man-who-attempted-murder-of-danish-cartoonist-confirmed-link-to-al-shabaab\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T14:36:00","slug":"breaking-somali-man-who-attempted-murder-of-danish-cartoonist-confirmed-link-to-al-shabaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/breaking-somali-man-who-attempted-murder-of-danish-cartoonist-confirmed-link-to-al-shabaab.php","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING!!! Somali Man who attempted Murder of Danish Cartoonist confirmed link to Al-Shabaab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/Sz9c0zA32tI\/AAAAAAAAJEg\/dGCwWYLilOk\/s1600-h\/AlShabaabFighters.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1dec4_AlShabaabFighters.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><em><strong>Major hat tip to Creeping Sharia and Jawa Report who are just breaking this news...<\/strong><\/em><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/creepingsharia.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/01\/al-shabaab-linked-somali-muslim-shot-trying-to-assasinate-mohammad-cartoonist\/\">Creeping Sharia<\/a> has the English translation from the Danish website <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.dk\/indland\/krimi\/article1934696.ece\">Indland<\/a>:<\/p><p>(Note - Some of the translation is rough)<\/p><blockquote><p>Jyllands-Posten&rsquo;s 74-year-old cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was Friday evening face a violent assassination attempt.<\/p><p>It happened in character&rsquo;s private home in Viby J, near Aarhus, where a 28-year-old man with a Somali background broke into the home and tried to beat Westergaard death with a knife and hatchet.<\/p><p>The offender was subsequently shot by police, but survived. He is now arrested and in hospital.<\/p><p><strong>Attempted murder of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is in police intelligence assessment (PET) terrorist-related, and the offender has &ldquo;close ties to the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabaab&rdquo; and part of the &ldquo;Al Qaeda&rdquo; states PET.<\/strong><\/p><p>The offender also suspected of having been &ldquo;involved in terrorist related activities&rdquo; in East Africa and to be &ldquo;part of a terrorism-related network linked to Denmark&rdquo;.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/Sz9c9KH38fI\/AAAAAAAAJEo\/71OE9AhzVDY\/s1600-h\/AlShabaabTerrorists.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1dec4_AlShabaabTerrorists.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Kurt Westergaard apparently survived the violent attack because he hid in the bathroom, which is converted to a so-called sikringsrum (safe-room).<\/p><p>His granddaughter in just five years was present during the attack. A shaken Westergaard have no doubt that the perpetrator would try to kill him.<\/p><p>&ldquo;That was close.  It was really close, &ldquo;he says to jp.dk.<\/p><p><strong>According to PET has the man as &lsquo;close relationship&rsquo; with the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabaab and al-Qaida leaders in East Africa, and he is &ldquo;suspected&rdquo; of having been involved in previous terrorist attacks in East Africa.<\/strong><\/p><p>According to PET is the man also part of &lsquo;a terrorist network associated with attachment to Denmark, which for a long time has been the subject of PET&rsquo;s investigations, but without the context of the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Note - See <a href=\"http:\/\/libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/al-shabaab-militants-in-somalia-seize-5.html\">related article<\/a> here at Libertarian Republican which ran just last week - \"Al Shabaab Militants seize 5 Islands, Advance on Kenyan Border,\" which highlights the increasingly expansionist Jihadist actions of the terrorist group.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1dec4_7828681836623105417-9189665174951671778?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major hat tip to Creeping Sharia and Jawa Report who are just breaking this news...Creeping Sharia has the English translation from the Danish website Indland:(Note - Some of the translation is rough)Jyllands-Posten&rsquo;s 74-year-old cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was Friday evening face &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/breaking-somali-man-who-attempted-murder-of-danish-cartoonist-confirmed-link-to-al-shabaab.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}