<div><p>A man charged with attempting to kill a Danish cartoonist over his Muslim prophet Mohammed caricatures was also involved in an alleged plot against US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Danish newspaper reported Sunday.</p><p>But one Danish diplomat played down the report.</p><p>The online edition of Politiken newpaper said that the 28-year-old man charged with having tried to kill cartoonist Kurt Westergaard late Friday had also been involved in a plot against Clinton in Kenya.</p><p>Clinton visited Kenya last August.</p><p>Their report said Kenyan police had arrested the suspect in 2009 and had held him for seven weeks. The Kenyan press had linked his arrest with a plot againt Clinton, the paper added.</p><p>"This connection has been confirmed to Politiken by intelligences source," the article added.</p><p>The newspaper noted that a statement Saturday from the Danish intelligence service, PET, had said of the suspect: "He is also suspected of having been involved in terror related activities during his stay in East Africa."</p><p>The suspect, who allegedly broke into Westergaard's home with an axe in a bid to kill him because of a caricature he had drawn of the prophet Mohammed which sparked deadly protests in the Muslim world, has not been named by the Danish authorities.</p><p>Approached by Politiken, Bo Jensen, the Danish ambassador to Kenya, would neither confirm or deny that the suspect charged in Denmark was the same person the previous year in Kenya.</p><p>But Jensen told the Danish news agency Ritzau the man arrested in Kenya had been picked up because his papers were not in order.</p><p>Kenyan officials had not confirmed he was involved in any plot against Clinton, he added. "It's just a story in a newspaper."</p><p>Danish intelligence, approached by AFP, refused to comment on the story.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=66243345&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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