More Cartoon Jihad. From The Australian, with thanks to all who sent this in:
THE publication of caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammed was the trigger for a failed attempt to bomb passenger trains in Germany, police have concluded.
One of the main suspects, Youssef Mohammed el Hajdib, who was arrested in Germany on August 16, “interpreted (the cartoons) as an insult to Islam by the western world,” Joerg Ziercke, the director of Germany’s federal police, told Focus magazine in an interview to be published on Monday.
He and the other main suspect in the failed plot, Jihad Hamad, who was arrested in Lebanon on August 24, were also influenced by the killing of the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in June, the police chief said.
“The two main suspects believed international terrorism had lost one of its chief leaders,” said Mr Ziercke.
The two men had “a certain base ideology” when they came to live in Germany, but gained more radical views “through al-Qaeda Internet propaganda”, the police chief said.