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Somali accused of attempting to kill Kurt Westergaard with axe The Somali man who threatened Mohammed cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe and a knife took the stand at the court in Aarhus today. The man, 29-year-old Mohamed Geele, is charged with intending to commit an act of terrorism, attempted murder, assaulting an officer on duty and violating the weapons law. He denies the charges of attempted terror and attempted murder, but admits to breaking into Westergaard’s house on January 1 last year. Geele told the court that he felt provoked by Westergaard’s indifference to allegations that his Mohammed drawings...