Danish police say cartoonist home attacker shot

COPENHAGEN Jan 2 (Reuters) - Danish police said on Saturday they shot and wounded a Somali man with links to al Qaeda when he tried to break into the home of a cartoonist whose 2005 caricatures of Prophet Mohammad outraged many Muslims.

The man, who was armed with a knife, had "close ties to the Somali terror organisation al-Shabaab as well as to al-Qaeda leaders in East Africa, and is suspected of being involved in terror-related activities in East Africa", police said.