Kenya’s anti-terrorism police have released the name of a Somali-Danish man charged with two counts of attempted murder for trying to kill a Danish cartoonist.

Muhidin Gelle, 28, is in custody in Denmark for attempting to kill the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard on Jan. 1, according to Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper. His name previously had not been released, following a Danish court order. Westergaard’s 2005 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban caused protests around the globe in 2005 and 2006.

Gelle was arrested in Kenya in September while U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in the country for an economic conference, according to anti-terrorism officials. The suspect allegedly was held for plotting a terrorist-related attack against Clinton, but he later was released and was deported to Denmark.

“Anti-terrorism officials traced Mr. Gelle to a residence in Eastleigh where he had gone to visit another man who is high on Kenya’s anti-terrorism watch list,” the Daily Nation reported. The Eastleigh neighborhood is in downtown Nairobi.

In the New Year’s Day incident, Westergaard told Danish newspapers that a man broke into his house shouting the words “revenge” and “blood.” He said he managed to call the police from a safe room in the house. Westergaard’s 5-year-old granddaughter was also in the house at the time of the attack.

“It was scary. It was close; really close,” Westergaard told the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, where he is employed.

The assailant, who was armed with an axe and a knife, was later shot twice by a police officer responding to the alarm. Westergaard’s was attacked at his home in Aarhus, more than 100 miles nothwest of Copenhagen.

In 2004, Theo van Gogh was killed in a terror-related attack in Denmark. Van Gogh was the director of the short movie “Submission” about Islam.

Somalia’s prime minister, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke urged Western authorities to look carefully at cases of radicalized Somali men returning home to fight.

“Locals involve themselves in suicide bombings," Sharmarke said. “But there are indications that brainwashed young men from overseas are more willing to blow themselves up than locals.”

Danish officials have linked Gelle to the Somali al-Shabab militia group, which is on a U.S. foreign terror group list.