Kabul attack kills up to 20, death toll seen rising

2011-12-06T00:30:10Z

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide attack on a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Kabul on Tuesday killed up to 20 people and injured five, a senior police official said, adding that the death toll was expected to rise.

Hundreds of people had gathered at the shrine to celebrate the festival of Ashura, which marks the martyrdom of the Reuters) - A Virginia man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to trying to help Somalia's islamic militant group al Shabaab and making threats against the writers of the satirical COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A man who set off a small blast at a hotel in Copenhagen last week had most likely planned to send a letter bomb to a Danish newspaper which had published cartoons of Prophet Mohammad in 2005, police said on Friday.

The publication by the

Indonesia foils plot on Danish Embassy: report

2010-06-25T05:30:21Z

Indonesian police foiled planned attacks on Danish Embassy, security forces: report

Indonesia's most wanted terror suspect had been planning attacks on the Danish Embassy and a police ceremony before his arrest, media reports and officials said Friday. Bomb-making material and revolvers were seized from his rented ho...

Pakistan court orders block of Facebook over caricatures

2010-05-19T02:16:04Z

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court ordered the government on Wednesday to block Facebook after press reports of a competition being held to draw the Prophet Mohammad, a lawyer said.

Pakistani media recently reported that a caricature comp...

Irish arrest 7 over threat to kill Swedish artist

2010-03-09T10:45:56Z

Irish police arrest 7 over alleged plot to kill Swedish artist who portrayed Muhammad as a dog

Irish police arrested seven people Tuesday over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish artist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.

Police said four men and three women were detained in morning raids in the counties of Cork and COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Somali man armed with an axe and suspected of links with al Qaeda broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused global Muslim outrage and was shot a...

US national denies Mumbai attacks, cartoons plot

2010-06-12T17:08:13Z

A Pakistani-American pleaded not guilty Wednesday to helping plan the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks and plotting to attack a Danish newspaper which published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

David Coleman Headley, 49, appeared in court in an orange jumpsuit, shackled at the ankle, accused of being a scout for two differe...

Purported bomber warns Denmark of more attacks

2010-04-16T13:26:39Z

Saudi thought behind Danish Embassy bomb warns of more revenge attacks for Muhammad cartoons

A new al-Qaida video identifies the Saudi purportedly behind a suicide bombing at the Danish Embassy in Pakistan, and he is shown warning in a taped last testament that more attac...

Artist sees prophet cartoons as musical

2010-09-10T00:48:23Z

Defying Al-Qaida Threats, Swedish Artist Wants to Turn Prophet Cartoon Uproar Into Musical

He has offended Muslims worldwide and al-Qaida wants him dead, but the Swedish artist who portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a dog said Monday he has no regrets.

Swedish Artist Displays Prophet Cartoon at Seminar Despite al-Qaida Threat

A Swedish artist displayed a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad to a seminar in Stockholm on Tuesday despite a death threat from

Denmark Terror Arrests

2010-12-30T03:31:38Z

Danish police officers stand guard as they await the arrival of four men arrested on suspicion of planning a shooting attack on the office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, near a court in Glostup, south of Copenhagen, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. The Wednesday arrests rattled Danes and brought renewed attention to simmering anger at the Prophet Mohammad, during special prayers to commemorate the death anniversary of Uthman, the third Caliph of Islam, at Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Palestinians Facebook Athiest Arrest

2010-11-12T10:34:29Z

In this Nov. 10, 2010 photo, a Palestinian man uses a computer at an Internet cafe in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. A mysterious blogger who set off an uproar in the Arab world by claiming he was God and hurling insults at the Prophet Muhammad is now behind bars, caught in a sting that used Kurt Westergaard, who sparked Muslim anger with drawings of the Prophet Mohammed, and his wife Gitte, right, arrive for the awarding ceremony of the M100 media prize 2010 in Potsdam near Berlin, eastern

India Kashmir Festival

2010-07-10T06:16:05Z

A Kashmiri Muslim girl looks on from a glass window as her mother prays while the head priest, unseen, displays a relic that Muslims believe is a hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammed, at a shrine in Srinagar, India, Saturday, July 10, 2010. Despite relaxation in curfew, only about 1,000 devotees thronged to Dargah Hazratbal, the region's...

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