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 14/02/2006
- 10:18:55
A political cartoonist from a leading German daily newspaper has
received death threats after publishing a caricature showing the
Iranian national soccer team wearing belts of explosives next to
four German soldiers.
Caricaturist Klaus Stuttmann said the idea of the cartoon, published
in the Friday edition of the Tagesspiegel daily, was to challenge
calls from some politicians for soldiers to provide security during
this summer’s soccer World Cup in Germany.
But since the cartoon was picked up by an internet site serving
Iranian soccer fans over the weekend, Stuttmann has been flooded
with hate mail, including death threats, and has received a letter
of protest from the Iranian Embassy, the paper said.
The paper blamed the affair on a “misunderstanding”
and said it had not intended to offend anyone.
“We regret the Iranian reaction, which we can only explain
as due to a lack of understanding of the political debate within
Germany,” the paper wrote today.
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=172690424&p=y7z69yy3x
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