Four alleged terrorists targeted Danish Crown Prince Frederik as part of their planned revenge attack on a newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a court heard today.

The trial of four Swedes accused of plotting a revenge attack on a Danish newspaper that printed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed has started in Denmark.

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THREE men suspected of planning a deadly attack on a Danish newspaper appeared yesterday before a court which charged them with an attempted act of terrorism and possession of weapons, officials said.

SCANDINAVIAN intelligence chiefs said they had foiled a plot yesterday to kill staff at a Danish newspaper which published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and had arrested five suspects.

Five Islamic extremists have been caught as they planned to massacre staff at the Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Four people were arrested today suspected of planning a terror attack against the Danish newspaper that printed the controversial Prophet Mohammed cartoons.

A Somali man was under heavy guard at a Danish hospital today after police stopped him from killing an artist whose cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed outraged the Muslim world.

A Somalian man is facing two charges of attempted murder after he was shot by police while attempting to enter the home of a cartoonist who outraged many Muslims with his depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, Danish security sources said.

A DANISH citizen of Moroccan descent and two Tunisians were arrested in Denmark yesterday over a plot to murder one of 12 cartoonists whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused worldwide uproar in 2006.

About 500 Swedish Muslims demonstrated in the city of Uppsala today to protest against a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad in the local newspaper, police said.

THE EURO 2008 qualifier between Sweden and Denmark was abandoned at 3-3 Saturday after a Danish fan tried to attack the referee for awarding a penalty kick in the 89th minute.

An editor of a Danish newspaper that published the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons said today that he expects the debate about self-censorship in the media and artists’ fear of offending Islam to continue for years.

A Danish prosecutor said today that a group of imams cannot be charged for travelling to the Middle East to seek support against a Danish newspaper after it published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Iran today awarded a Moroccan artist the top prize in an exhibition of cartoons on the Holocaust that has received international condemnation, including from UN chief Kofi Annan.

A DANISH court yesterday dismissed a defamation lawsuit against a newspaper that first published the Prophet Mohammed cartoons that touched off protests in the Islamic world.

Arabs today criticised a Danish court’s decision to exonerate the newspaper that first published the Prophet Mohammed cartoons that provoked riots across the Muslim world.

A top Pakistani Islamic group today criticised the dismissal by a Danish court of a defamation lawsuit against a newspaper that published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed that sparked mass protests across the Muslim world this year.

Denmark’s prime minister said he did not consider the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed offensive, but understood the rage they caused in the Muslim world earlier this year, according to a new book.

A Danish newspaper said today it had filed a defamation lawsuit against a lawyer representing a group of Muslim organisations which sued the daily for publishing the contentious Prophet Muhammad cartoons that sparked riots across the world.

A Russian court today convicted and fined the editor of a newspaper who was charged with inciting religious strife by publishing the Prophet Muhammad cartoons two months ago.

A network of Danish Muslim organisations will bring Denmark before an international human rights court for not pressing charges against the newspaper that first published the contentious Prophet Mohammed cartoons, Danish radio reported today.

Denmark’s top prosecutor said today he won’t press charges against the newspaper that first published the Prophet Mohammed cartoons that angered Muslims worldwide.

Muslim and Christian scholars and clerics agreed at a conference today that the West and Islam must use dialogue to repair ties frayed by the crisis over the Prophet Mohammed cartoons.

Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen today welcomed a joint declaration by the Europe Union on the Prophet Mohammed cartoons, saying it was in line with his government’s view.

YOUR columnist Ryle Dwyer (Examiner, Feb 11) tells us that a delegation of Danish imams distributed a booklet with an extra three bogus offensive images of the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) when they went to the Middle East.

Hundreds of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked the US Embassy in Indonesia with rocks and sticks today as police detained lawmakers in Pakistan and fired tear gas to quell demonstrations there.

Muslim boycotts of Danish goods over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad are costing Denmark’s companies millions and have raised fears of irreparable damage to trade ties.

CONSUMER boycotts of Danish goods in Muslim countries in protest at the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed are costing Denmark’s companies millions, and have raised fears of irreparable damage to trade ties.

Consumer boycotts of Danish goods in Muslim countries in protest of the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed are costing Denmark’s companies millions, and have raised fears of irreparable damage to trade ties.

Denmark’s main opposition party and a government ally today called for an investigation of a national Muslim group’s Middle East trip, which has been blamed for fanning the furore over a newspaper’s publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso expressed support for Denmark in the dispute over the Prophet Mohammed cartoons, saying in comments published today that the freedom of speech cannot be compromised.

Danes are pointing fingers at a shadowy grouping of Muslim leaders, accusing them of instigating a global firestorm over drawings of the Prophet Mohammed during their recent trips to the Middle East.

Kaare Bluitgen thought his children’s book about the Prophet Mohammed would help bring ethnic Danes and immigrant Muslims closer together.

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper whose cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed sparked a worldwide furore today said he had no plans to resign over the issue.

DENMARK’S Prime Minister yesterday appealed for calm amid what he called a “growing global crisis” over drawings of the prophet Mohammed.

JYLLANDS-POSTEN, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that have caused fury throughout the Islamic world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ, it emerged yesterday.

An editor of a small Malaysian newspaper has resigned for reprinting Danish newspaper caricatures of Prophet Muhammad, which have unleashed a storm of protests across the Islamic world.

MUSLIM rage over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed spilled out of Syria yesterday into neighbouring Lebanon where thousands of protesters torched the Danish mission and ransacked a Christian neighbourhood.

Muslim rage over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed spilled out of Syria today into neighbouring Lebanon where thousands of protesters – undaunted by police tear gas and water cannons – torched the Danish mission and ransacked a Christian neighbourhood.

A Jordanian newspaper today took the step of publishing the Danish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad that have outraged Muslims, saying it was reprinting them to show readers “the extent of the Danish offence".

The BBC today said it would broadcast the cartoons which have caused a storm of protest in the Islamic world and led to the sacking of a French newspaper editor.

MUSLIM anger over a Danish newspaper’s decision to publish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed escalated yesterday, with the EU becoming embroiled in an increasingly angry row.

Masked gunmen today briefly took over a European Union office to protest at a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, the latest in a wave of violent denunciations of the caricatures across the Islamic world.