• In January, a Somali broke into Kurt Westergaard's home wielding an ax and a knife but the artist escaped to a safe room. In 2008, two Tunisians were arrested for plotting to kill him.
• In September, a man was wounded when a letter bomb he was preparing exploded in a Copenhagen hotel. Police said it was intended for the Jyllands-Posten.
• U.S. citizen Tahawwur Rana faces trial in Chicago in February in connection with the 2008 Mumbai attacks and a planned attack on the Jyllands-Posten.
• In 2008, the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was targeted by a car bomb that killed six people.
