Bin Laden threatens Europe online
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden has threatened the European Union with grave punishment for allowing the publication of cartoons of Muhammed.
A warning posted on al Qaeda’s Web site to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion accuses European leaders and the Pope of being part of a “crusade,” says EuroNews.
“It cites the anti-Muslim cartoons, originally published in Denmark, as proof,” and, “also slams EU leaders for supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” says the story.
The punishment, “will also be more severe,” Bin Laden said to the “intelligent ones” in the European Union, says Deutsche Welle.
“Don’t listen to our words, watch our actions.”
With the number of signatures to an online petition launched by an anti-freedom of speech group to force the Wikipedia to take down picures of the prophet Mohammed at 142,380, Danish authorities have arrested 12 people planning to murder Kurt Westergaard, one of 12 cartoonists who caused a storm with their caricatures in 2005, p2pnet posted in February.
His work appeared in Denmark’s Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten.
Westergaard, 73, had been under police protection since receiving death threats after the drawings were published, according to Jyllands-Posten’s editor-in-chief, Carsten Juste.
Some 420,413 people had signed the ant-Wikipedia petition by 4:08 am Pacific.
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Also See:
EuroNews – Bin Laden threat coincides with Iraq anniversary, March 20, 2008
Deutsche Welle – Bin Laden Threatens Europe Over Mohammed Cartoons , March 18, 2008
p2pnet – Islamic extremists plot to kill cartoonist, February 12, 2008
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March 20th, 2008 at 5:32 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg
March 20th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Forget Bin Laden, the guy never existed in reality, but the fanatics DO exist. If this is more than a scare tactic, things will get messy in the EU.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:20 am
“Terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden has threatened the European Union with grave punishment for allowing the publication of cartoons of Muhammed.”
Wasn’t that 2 years ago? Way to strike while the iron’s hot.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Kudos to this news source for having the nuts to post the world famous motoon right next to a pic of Bin Hidin himself at the top of this story. I scrolled right on past the various Roid-ers, and Associated (with terrorists) Press versions of the story. Your click is your vote people. Reward real journalists with your click, punish the weak-kneed propagandists with your scroll wheel.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Yawn, another Bin Laden Video when will they stop perpretrating the this man as the poster child for terrisim
March 21st, 2008 at 3:07 am
I know I’ll get labelled as racist for this, but the world would truly be a better place if the entire middle east was just wiped off the map
March 21st, 2008 at 9:27 am
Way to stay current Osama. Apparently his hole in the mud doesn’t get cable.
How many empty threats does this make for him? A bakers dozen? More? I imagine it sucks to be impotent.
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 am
Yes it was two years ago when they first appeared. But last month most the Dutch newspapers reprinted teh cartoons as a source of freedom of speech.
kind of funny that when it was reprinted there wasnt the big protests like there was they were first printed. Probably cause at teh time they just needed sometime to get pissed off about.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Another threat from Bin Chicken? Yawn…