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Cartoon trial: Kurt Westergaard's attacker convicted


A Somali who broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad has been convicted of attempted murder and terrorism.
Mohamed Geele, 29, may face a 12-year sentence in prison for his attack on Kurt Westergaard, 75, who avoided injury by sheltering in a panic room.
But he was acquitted of a separate charge of attempting to murder a policeman trying to arrest him.
Geele, who was wounded by police after the attack, denied the charges.
He told the court in Aarhus he was only trying to frighten the cartoonist.
A judge is expected to pass sentence on Friday.
Mr Westergaard's cartoon of a turban bomb was one of 12 published in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 that prompted protests among Muslims around the world.
He first went into hiding but then decided to live openly in a heavily fortified house in Aarhus, Denmark's second city.