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Danish police said that they shot and wounded a Somali man with al Qaeda links when he tried to break into the home of a cartoonist whose 2005 caricatures of Prophet Mohammad outraged many Muslims.The 28 year old man, armed with a knife and axe, failed to get into Kurt Westergaard's home in the town of Aarhus and was shot in the leg and hand after he threw the axe at a policeman, a police spokesman said. The man, who was now under arrest, had close ties to the Somali terror organisation al-Shabaab as well as to al-Qaeda leaders in East Africa, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service PET said in a statement. According to Danish media reports, there were 3 attackers involved in the incident. Westergaard was not hurt in the incident, a police spokesman told. In February 2006, as Muslims reacted against the caricutrues, Danish ambassies in Damiscuss and Beirut were also destroyed and set ablaze; where as many people were also killed during protests in Nigeria, Libiya and Pakistan.
