A SOMALI man charged with trying to kill a Dane who caricatured the Prophet Mohammed pleaded not guilty to attempted murder on the first day of his trial yesterday, insisting he had only aimed to scare the cartoonist.

HE lives under round-the-clock protection and travels in an armoured SUV.

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

Denmark’s top prosecutor has charged a Somali man with terrorism for allegedly trying to kill a cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.

KENYAN authorities had arrested a man, now charged with attempting to kill a Danish cartoonist, after he arrived ahead of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit earlier this year, a police official said yesterday.

The man who attacked a cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a cartoon has previously been arrested in Kenya, according to Danish media.

A Somali man appeared in court in Denmark today charged with attempting to murder the artist whose cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad outraged the Muslim world three years ago.

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.

Hundreds of angry students staged a protest in front of the Danish embassy in Tehran today to condemn the reprinting of cartoons deemed insulting of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers.

Denmark’s leading newspapers today reprinted a cartoon which depicts the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban.

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.

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.

THE Danish cartoonist whose depiction of the Prophet Mohammed has sparked worldwide furore has said he has no regrets about the drawings.