12-Year Sentence For Mohammed Cartoon Bomber

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's drawings of the prophet Mohammed were used as a pretext for global protests and boycotts against Denmark by Islamist-friendly nations. As well, Westergaard has had to live in hiding in his own country because of people like Lors Doukaev.

Courtesy of the Copenhagen Post:

Lors Doukaev will spend 12 years in a Danish prison for last September’s failed plan to send a letter bomb to the newspaper that published the Mohammed drawings, a court in Copenhagen announced today.

The sentence, which includes permanent expulsion from Denmark after the sentence is served, was handed down a day after a unanimous court found the Chechen-born Belgian citizen guilty of attempted terrorism and weapons possession.

Considering the general incompetence of Doukaev's terrorist "plot," I'm not sure he presented much of a threat to the paper that published Westergaard's cartoons:

Doukaev was arrested in a Copenhagen park on September 10, after a minor explosion in a near-by hotel.

The 25-year-old, who was the only person injured in the blast, admitted to accidentally setting off the bomb, but told the court he was disarming the package he intended to use to protect himself from other Chechens while staying at the hotel.

The court however did not buy that explanation and convicted Doukaev for attempting to send a letter bomb to the offices of Jyllands-Posten newspaper in retaliation for the 2005 publication of 12 caricatures of the prophet Mohammed.

Doukaev’s only comment to the court today before receiving his sentence was to maintain his innocence.

Doukaev isn't the first incompetent terrorist to ply his trade, and he probably won't be the last. Good riddance to him nonetheless. 

H/T to Blazing Cat Fur

Walker Morrow is a Contributing Writer for The Propagandist