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Danish intelligence services investigating the attack on Kurt Westergaard, a cartoonist whose 2005 drawings of Prophet Muhammad sparked outrage, have said the suspect was already under surveillance.

The Somali, whose name has been withheld as part of Danish privacy laws, is believed to have had links with Al Qaeda, and had previously been arrested while in Kenya in connection with a bomb plot.

Now the local Somali population is fearing a backlash over the incident.

Nazanine Moshiri reports from Copenhagen, Denmark.

Al Jazeera speaks to Spencer Ackerman, the nationla security correspondent for the Washington Independent political news site, on Barack Obama’s criticism of the US intelligence agencies for failing to disrupt an attempt to blow up a US-bound passenger plane on Christmas Day.

The US president said agents had sufficient information to stop the attempted attack but "failed to connect the dots", but Ackerman tells Al Jazeera that under current rules, there just was not enough specific information to put the suspect on a "no-fly" list.

He adds that sharing more unspecific information among intelilgence agencies and making it easier to put people on the "no-fly" list, may backfire.

An offshoot of al-Qaeda has emerged in the deserts of North Africa, claiming an area it calls the Sahara Emirate.

The group roams the border region of Algeria, Mauritania, Mali and Morocco.

Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage showing the fighters posing wiht bombs and rocket porpelled grenades at a desert camp.

Moahmmed Vall reports from Mauritania.

The latest news from Al Jazeera.

The latest news from Al Jazeera.