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September 04, 2007
Barbarians vs Danes update: Danes 2 Barbarians 0
You might recall that we covered the Barbaric threats to Danes in general and an online blogger in particular last year.
You might have noticed we didn't cover the Opus cartoon censorship, (plenty of other blogs did) since the online angle is minor.
Well this is what those papers were afraid of:
Danish intelligence agents early Tuesday arrested eight alleged Islamic militants with links to leading al-Qaida figures, and said the suspects were plotting an attack involving explosives."With the arrests, we have prevented a terror attack," said Jakob Scharf, head of the PET intelligence service. He did not identify the target.
The Why answers itself but Captain Ed bottom lines it:
Why Denmark? The Danes belong to the Coalition fighting in Iraq, but that's probably a secondary issue. The Prophet cartoons -- which depicted Mohammed in a critical fashion -- were first published by Danish newspapers, and the Muslim world went nuts over the images. Hundreds of thousands protested, several people were murdered, and the radicals swore revenge. Some of them took it seriously.Congratulations to Denmark for stopping these terrorists before they could attack.
Lets hope the Danes keep the shutout going.
Posted by Peter at September 4, 2007 10:46 AM