[New York Times] Dan Bilefsky - Two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin were arrested in Denmark on Tuesday to prevent what the Danish police said would have been "a terror-related assassination" of one of 12 cartoonists behind caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in 2005 that provoked fury across the Muslim world. The Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Aarhus said the suspects had been planning to kill its cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, 73, who drew a cartoon depicting Muhammad wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb with a burning fuse.
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