Suspect Acquitted In Assassination Plot

According to early-morning wire reports, one of the three men arrested February 12 and charged with plotting the murder of 73-year-old Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and his wife will not be prosecuted. According to a statement from that country's national prosecutor's office, there was not enough evidence to support charges that the Moroccan-born, 40-year-old Danish citizen was involved in the suggested plot. Two Tunisian men remain in custody. The acquitted man had been released on the day of his arrest.

The arrests led to many papers in Denmark and a few abroad re-publishing Westergaard's 2005 caricature of Muhammed in support of the cartoonist, which in turn led to a renewed period of political turmoil and protests about its nature and the idea of publishing such material.
 
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