Danish Cartoonist Tells Court He 'Faced Certain Death'
BBC: A Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad has told a court in Aarhus that a man who broke into his home meant to kill him with an axe.

Mr Westergaard was in the house with his grand-daughter when his front door was broken down. Photograph: BBC
Kurt Westergaard, 75, was testifying against Somali defendant Mohamed Geele, 29, who told the court he only wanted to "frighten" the cartoonist.

Mr Westergaard said Mr Geele had hacked at the door of his panic room.

When police arrived, they shot and wounded the suspect, who denies charges of terrorism and attempted murder.

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.

Mr Westergaard first went into hiding but then decided to live openly in a heavily fortified house. >>> | Thursday, January 20, 2011