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The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) has rejected criticism that it could have detained the 28-year-old Somali who attacked cartoonist Kurt Westergaard a couple of months ago and thus could have prevented last Friday’s attack.
Within hours of the attack on Friday at 10 p.m., PET announced that the man had links to the radical al-Shabaab organisation as well as to al-Qaeda leaders in East Africa. It is not clear when the man appeared on PET’s radar or why, but the man was involved in a case in Nairobi in late 2009 when he was detained by the Kenyan Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) on formal charges of not having travel documents.
