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Drawn to murder?

Several Swedish newspapers on Wednesday reprinted a controversial caricature of the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, the day after an alleged plot to murder the cartoonist was disclosed.

Stockholm tabloid Expressen said it decided to reprint the caricature "in support of freedom of speech." An editorial in the Dagens Nyheter daily said a "threat against (the cartoonist) is ultimately a threat against all Swedes."

Plotters arrested

Irish police on Tuesday arrested four men and three women who they say planned to kill Lars Vilks. The Swedish cartoonist in 2007 drew a caricature of Prophet Muhammad's head attached to the body of a dog to illustrate a newspaper editorial about freedom of expression and religion.

The seven, ranging from their mid-twenties to late forties, were from Morocco and Yemen but living legally in Ireland, according to Irish media reports.

Death threats

Vilks has a price on his head. A group connected to terrorist group al Qaeda had offered $100,000 (74,000 euros) to anyone who murdered him and a $50,000 bonus for doing it by slitting his throat. The same group offered a $50,000 reward for the murder of Ulf Johansson, the editor of the paper that published Vilks' drawing.

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No regrets, says Danish cartoonist

LONDON: The Danish cartoonist whose depiction of Prophet Muhammad sparked worldwide violence has broken his silence, saying he has no regret for his action and that freedom of expression and the press were vital to a democratic society.
In an interview to the Glasgow Herald newspaper through a list of written questions, and published in The Observer, Kurt Westergaard claimed he had no regrets about his actions, despite the $1 million bounty put on his head last week by a Pakistani cleric, which has forced him to go into hiding.
Speaking through an intermediary, the artist appeared to suggest he was being protected by the Danish secret service.
Asked if he had expected the controversy the caricatures would spark, he replied simply: "No, no."
When asked if he regretted drawing the cartoon or its publication, he said again: "No." He said "terrorism" was the inspiration for the drawings.
Two ministers-- in Italy and Libya-- were forced out of their jobs yesterday after the row intensified over the cartoons, which were published in Denmark in September and then reappeared last month in several newspapers across the world who claimed they were asserting their right to freedom of expression.