Embassy workers go into hiding
The Danish Foreign Ministry said it had evacuated its staff from embassies in Algeria and Afghanistan because of threats after Danish newspapers reprinted a cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad in February.
Employees have been moved to secret locations in both countries’ capitals and continue to work, ministry spokesman Erik Laursen said.
The cartoon showed Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. It was one of 12 Danish drawings of the prophet that caused riots in the Muslim world in 2006. Newspapers said they reprinted the cartoon in support of free speech after police disclosed a plot to kill the creator of the caricature.
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