( CNN ) -- A Danish court sentenced a Somali man to nine years in prison Friday for the attempted attack on a cartoonist who drew an image of the Muslim prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb-shaped turban . Mohamed Geele will be permanently expelled from Denmark when his prison term is complete , according to the sentence . Prosecutors had sought 12 years in prison for Geele . `` This is a good result , and I am very pleased with the way that it has gone , '' District Attorney Kristen Dyman said . Geele was convicted Thursday of attempted terrorism , attempted manslaughter and attacking a police officer with a knife and an ax , according to prosecutors . Authorities said Geele tried to break into the home of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard on January 1 , 2010 . He cracked a window , which set off an alarm and sent police to the home . An officer shot Geele in the hand and leg . Westergaard , who was home with his 5-year-old granddaughter at the time of the break-in , hid in a `` panic room '' when he realized what was happening , authorities said . Westergaard is ordinarily accompanied by bodyguards when he leaves his home , but nobody was on guard at the house that day , the Security and Intelligence Service told CNN . Danish intelligence officials linked Geele to an East African Islamist militia allied with al Qaeda . Although Geele had been under surveillance because of his alleged terrorist associations , Danish authorities said they had no idea Geele was planning an attack on Westergaard . The cartoonist has said he wanted his controversial drawing to show that some people exploited the prophet to legitimize terrorism . However , many in the Muslim world interpreted the drawing as depicting their prophet as a terrorist . CNN 's Alexander Felton contributed to this story .
A Muslim court issued a that day prison sentence in an attack on a political cartoonist . Mohammed will be permanently expelled from Denmark after his sentence . Geele 's target was a cartoonist who drew a picture of Mohamed Geele wearing a bomb-turban .