Separate attacks, the Prime Minister said denmark has been hit by terror. It began yesterday afternoon at a copenhagen cafe hosting an event on free speech, one of the guests was swedish cartoonist who has received Death Threats for drawing the prophet mohammed in the past. The gunman fired roughly 30 shots through the windows, killing 55yearold man and wounding three Police Officers before fleeing the scene. Then just past midnight in copenhagen, he struck again outside a synagogue and shot a man who was standing guard in the head, Police Released photos of the suspect and roughly 25 to 30 years old, they fine he caught up with him in the early hours of the train station where he was shot dead after a firefight with police. They havent released the suspects name or his motives but police say it is possible he was imitating last months paris attacks where 17 people were killed Counterterrorism Police say they believe the immediate threat is over but the country remains on high alert. C
And wounding five police in two separate attacks, the Prime Minister said denmark has been hit by terror. It began yesterday afternoon at a copenhagen cafe hosting an event on free speech, one of the guests was swedish cartoonist who has received Death Threats for drawing the prophet mohammed in the past. The gunman fired roughly 30 shots through the windows, killing 55yearold man and wounding three Police Officers before fleeing the scene. Then just past midnight in copenhagen, he struck again outside a synagogue and shot a man who was standing guard in the head, Police Released photos of the suspect and roughly 25 to 30 years old, they fine he caught up with him in the early hours of the train station where he was shot dead after a firefight with police. They havent released the suspects name or his motives but police say it is possible he was imitating last months paris attacks where 17 people were killed Counterterrorism Police say they believe the immediate threat is over but the
And wounding five police in two separate attacks, the Prime Minister said denmark has been hit by terror. It began yesterday afternoon at a copenhagen cafe hosting an event on free speech, one of the guests was swedish cartoonist who has received Death Threats for drawing the prophet mohammed in the past. The gunman fired roughly 30 shots through the windows, killing 55yearold man and wounding three Police Officers before fleeing the scene. Then just past midnight in copenhagen, he struck again outside a synagogue and shot a man who was standing guard in the head, Police Released photos of the suspect and roughly 25 to 30 years old, they fine he caught up with him in the early hours of the train station where he was shot dead after a firefight with police. They havent released the suspects name or his motives but police say it is possible he was imitating last months paris attacks where 17 people were killed Counterterrorism Police say they believe the immediate threat is over but the
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Panel celebrating the publication of democratization and authoritarianism in the erab world edited by Larry Diamond and me and published by the Johns Hopkins university press. If im not mistaken, this is the 30th journal of democracy book at Johns Hopkins has published since the series began in 1993. These volumes, which mostly but not exclusively draw up on articles that previously appeared in the journal have addressed a very wide range of regional issues related to democratization around the wor world. It is a quarterly publication sponsored by the National Endowment for democracy. It has become a leading global forum for serious analysis of the problems and prospects of democracy around the world. Larry diamond, who is also my coeditor of the journal will serve as the moderator of todays discussion and i will limit myself here with just a few brief remarks mostly about the book itself. Today given the intense worldwide focus on the shattering events in ukraine, the arab world is no