THE TELEGRAPH: Denmark's security services have provided protection to namesakes of the Danish cartoonist behind controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
There are 82 Kurt Westergaards living in Denmark but only one of them is the man who[se] life is under daily threat because of his caricatures of the founder of Islam.
However, some of other 81 "Kurts" scattered across Denmark have also received mistaken identity death threats because they share the same name as the illustrator.
One, a businessman from the Danish town of Aabenraa, has been offered protection by Denmark's intelligence agency, the PET, after receiving multiple death threats. "The worst thing was that they also called my three children. They wanted to kidnap my family and murder me," he said. Danish cartoonist's 81 namesakes in terror risk >>> By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
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