full support and solidarity with Denmark. Secretary General of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, expresses his full support for Denmark. The Israeli English language newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, prints the drawings, although very small, almost impossible to see. Iran stops all trade with Denmark, thereby violating their agreements with the EU. The Danish embassy in Indonesia shuts down in order to secure the employees. The Danish embassy in Iran is attacked. About 20 firebombs are thrown at the building, but no damage seems to have been done. The American ambassador in Denmark repeats in several media that USA supports Denmark and is 100% behind Denmark. He also states that USA is fully behind freedom of speech and would never intervene against media who publishes the cartoons. The Grand Mufti of Syria is sorry that the relationship with Denmark has deteriorated, but hopes to restore it as soon as possible. He says that 10,000 people were at the demonstration at the Danish Embassy, but only 10-15 were responsible for burning it down. He says that the Syrian population will rebuild the embassy, even nicer than it was before. It would be a gift to the Danish population. When TV 2 visits him, he gives them a gold plate with citations from the Qur'an as a gift to the Danish people. Syria has officially apologized for not protecting the embassy well enough. The Danish Refugee Council, the largest humanitarian aid organisation in Chechnya and supplier of food for 250,000 people in Chechnya and Dagestan, is asked by the government of Chechnya to leave the country, citing the current controversy. The organisation also has problems with delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan. Ferial Haffajee, editor of South African newspaper The Mail & Guardian, which reprinted the cartoons, reports receiving threats. An Iranian newspaper, Hamshahri, announces a competition for cartoons on The Holocaust, apparently in retaliation to the Jyllands-Posten cartoons. Two people die at a protest near the Bagram Air Base. The death toll in Afghanistan is now at five. In Somalia, a teenage boy dies after protesters attack police. US vice secretary of foreign affairs, Daniel Fried, states that Denmark has nothing to excuse. A man in Aarhus, Denmark files charges against Jyllands-Posten both for blasphemizing and, in doing so, harming the country. Terry Davis, secretary general of the Council of Europe, says that the publication of the cartoons crossed an ethical line even