Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

Another single-item update, another doozy: wire reports blew up earlier this morning with news that Denmark prosecutor Joergen Steen Soerensen has charged the Somali man who entered Kurt Westergaard's home in January with terrorism and with trying to kill one of the police officers that came to the scene. As you may recall, this is the infamous Panic Room attack, in which the 74-year-old cartoonist, the most famous of all the cartoonists to caricature Muhammed in the infamous Danish Cartoons Controversy, hid in a panic room while the man tried to break in with a knife and an ax. Westergaard's granddaughter hid in another part of the house.

The 28-year-old attacker, whose name is shielded from publication by Denmark law, was shot in the leg as he tried to escape. He has since been linked to the Somali militant group al-Shabab. The man denies all such connection and says he was only trying to scare Westergaard.
 
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